Vocabulary Enrichment #2

10 WORDS
Your Word
Where you read it (source info).
The entire sentence in which you found this word.
Dictionary definition for this word; part of speech (noun, verb, etc.).
Use the word in a new sentence. Your sentence should make it clear that you understand the meaning of this word and know how to use it.

Cupola
The Mercury News
In the Bank of Italy building, Dillabough’s group plans a major overhaul of the interior of the office tower, which has a spire topped by an iconic cupola.
Noun
a small dome, especially a small dome on a drum on top of a larger dome, adorning a roof or ceiling
Many cathedrals in Italy have a grand cupola at the top of the structure.

Zeitgeist
The AV Club
Just as a favorable Q score means more to celebrities and the studios in business with them than a slightly bigger payday, so too does the hard-to-penetrate world of the zeitgeist offer more long-term benefits to a company like Netflix than a few quietly well-received hits.
Noun
the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time

Resonance
BBC
The researchers wondered whether long-term gravitational interactions - known as strong resonances between the sports car and giant planets like Jupiter might draw the object outwards.
Noun
the quality in a sound of being deep, full, and reverberating
The resonance of the

Vagabond
This is Gospel by Panic by the Disco
This is gospel for the vagabonds,
Ne'er-do-wells and insufferable bastards
Noun
a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.

Haughty
Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
The sweet-faced liar and the insufferable, haughty princess.
Adjective
arrogantly superior and disdainful
The girl had a haughty personality since she grew up as an only child.

Skein
The Power by Naomi Alderman
It reveals a painting, twenty feet high, of proud, buxom woman in blue , her eyes kind, the skein prominent across her collarbone, an all-seeing eye in the palm of each hand.
Noun
a length of thread or yarn, loosely coiled and knotted

Brocade
The Power by Naomi Alderman
The bedroom is decorated with a mixture of burgundy brocade and tiger skins.
Noun
a rich fabric, usually silk, woven with a raised pattern, typically with gold or silver thread.

Billowy 
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
A vest of dark bluish-green velvet, with almost ridiculously billowy white sleeves bursting from the blue-and-white striped shoulders.
Adjective
characterized by or full of billows; surging

Pommel
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
The eagle-shaped pommel glinted in the midday sun. 
Noun
a knob, as on the hilt of a sword



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