"Love's Vocabulary" Vocabulary Definitions

Unable to be touched or grasped; not having physical presence

• Increment

• Guise

• Taproot

• Intangible

Graceful and elegant bearing in a person

• Guise

• Poise

• Supple

• Custom

In ancient Rome, a man that is trained to fight with weapons against other men or wild animals in an arena.

• Guise

• Batik

• Gladiator

• Sistrum

A rapid movement in a circle or spiral; a whirling motion

• Gyration

• Increment

• Gradation

• Guise

The study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history

• Custom

• Etymology

• Ingredient

• Taproot

A straight tapering root growing vertically downward and forming the center from which subsidiary rootlets spring; the central element or position in a line of growth or development.

• Taproot

• Guise

• Ingredient

• Increment

The variation of the form of a verb in an inflected language such as Latin, by which are identified the voice, mood, tense, number, and person

• Ingredient

• Supple

• Conjugation

• Sarong

An external form, appearance, or manner of presentation, typically concealing the true nature of something

• Gyration

• Gladiator

• Poise

• Guise

A component part or element of something

• Ingredient

• Increment

• Conjugation

• Taproot

Cloth that has been dyed using the _________ method

• Poise

• Batik

• Taproot

• Guise