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VOCABULARY WORDS

A moustache is facial hair grown on the outer surface of the upper lip. It may or may not be accompanied by a type of beard, a facial hair style grown and cropped to cover most of the lower half of the face.

Arteriosclerosis refers to a stiffening of arteries.[1]

Arteriosclerosis is a general term describing any hardening (and loss of elasticity) of medium or large arteries (from the Greek arterio, meaning artery, and sclerosis, meaning hardening) It should not be confused with "arteriolosclerosis" or "atherosclerosis". Also known by the name "myoconditis" which is outdated and no longer in general use.

Chronic
constant; habitual; inveterate: a chronic liar. continuing a long time or recurring frequently: a chronic stateof civil war. having long had a disease, habit, weakness, or the like: achronic invalid. (of a disease) having long duration ( opposed to acute).

A speedometer is a gauge that measures and displays the instantaneous speed of a land vehicle. Now universally fitted tomotor vehicles, they started to be available as options in the 1900s, and as standard equipment from about 1910 onwards.[1]Speedometers for other vehicles have specific names and use other means of sensing speed. For a boat, this is a pit log. For an aircraft, this is an airspeed indicator. The speedometer was invented by the Croatian Josip Belui[citation needed] in 1888, and was originally called a velocimeter.[citation needed]

Exquisite
of special beauty or charm, or rare and appealing excellence,as a face, a flower, coloring, music, or poetry. extraordinarily fine or admirable; consummate: exquisiteweather. intense; acute, or keen, as pleasure or pain. of rare excellence of production or execution, as works ofart or workmanship: the exquisite statu es of the Renaissance. keenly or delicately sensitive or responsive: an exquisite earfor music; an exquisite sensibility.

Ethers are a class of organic compounds that contain an ether group

an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups of general formula ROR'.[1] A typical example is the solvent and anesthetic diethyl ether, commonly referred to simply as "ether" (CH3-CH2-O-CH2-CH3). Ethers are common in organic chemistry and pervasive in biochemistry, as they are common linkages in carbohydrates and lignin.

Nauseous, nauseated - Nauseous ("sickening") is an adjective describing something that causes

nausea; the adjective for the feeling ("made sick") is nauseated. See also related terms for sick.

Self-propelled (also called mobile artillery or locomotive artillery) vehicles are combat
vehicles armed withartillery. Within the term are covered self-propelled guns (or howitzers) and rocket artillery. They are high mobility vehicles, usually based on caterpillar track carrying either a large howitzer or other field gun or alternatively a mortar or some form ofrocket or missile launcher. They are usually used for long-range indirect bombardment support on the battlefield. In the past, self-propelled artillery has included direct-fire vehicles such as assault guns and tank destroyers. These have been heavily armoured vehicles, the former providing close fire-support for infantry and the latter acting as specialized anti-tank vehicles. Modern self-propelled artillery vehicles may superficially resemble tanks, but they are generally lightly armoured, too lightly to survive in direct-fire combat. However, they protect their crews against shrapnel and small arms and are therefore usually included as armoured fighting vehicles. Many are equipped with machine guns for defense against enemy infantry. The key advantage of self-propelled over towed artillery is that it can be brought into action much faster. Before the towed artillery can be used, it has to stop, unlimber and set up the guns. To move position, the guns must be limbered up again and brought usually towed to the new location. By comparison self-propelled artillery can stop at a chosen location and begin firing almost immediately, then quickly move on to a new position. This ability is very useful in a mobile conflict and particularly on the advance. Conversely, towed artillery was and remains cheaper to build and maintain. It is also lighter and can be taken to places that self-propelled guns cannot reach, so despite the advantages of the self-propelled artillery, towed guns remain in the arsenals of many modern armies.

Cackled
to make the sharp broken noise or cry characteristic of a hen especially after laying or to laugh especially in a harsh or sharp manner

A pike is a pole weapon, a very long thrusting spear used extensively by infantry. Unlike many similar weapons, the pike is not intended to be thrown. Pikes were used regularly in European warfare from the early Middle Ages[1] until around 1700, and wielded by foot soldiers deployed in close order. The pike found extensive use with Landsknecht armies and Swiss mercenaries, who employed it as their main weapon and used it in pike square formations. A similar weapon, the sarissa, was also used by Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx infantry to great effect. The first pikes were simply long sharpened trees used mainly to stop incoming cavalry and sometimes charging infantry.

Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's leisured travelers to examine "the face of a country by the rules of picturesque beauty". Picturesque, along with the aesthetic and cultural strands of Gothic and Celticism emerging Romantic sensibility of the 18th century. The term "picturesque" needs to be explained in terms of its relationship to two other aesthetic ideals: those of the beautiful and the sublime. By the last third of the 18th century,Enlightenment rationalist ideas about aestheticism were being challenged by looking at the experiences of beauty and sublimity as being non-rational (instinctual). Aesthetic experiencewas not just a rational decision - one did not look at a pleasing curved form and decide it was beautiful - rather it was a matter of basic human instinct and came naturally. Edmund Burkein his 1757 Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful said the soft gentle curves appealed, he thought, to the male sexual desire, while the sublime horrors appealed to our desires for self-preservation.
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Picturesque arose as a mediator between

the opposed ideals of beauty and the sublime, showing the possibilities that existed in between these two rationally idealized states. As Thomas Gray wrote in 1765 of the Scottish Highlands "The mountains are ecstatic.. None but.. God know how to join so much beauty with so much horror." the picturesque.
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See also Gilpin and