Word Origins and Interesting Words that I once knew but forgot, by Ray Sahelian, M.D.

Cafeteria, coffee shop from Spanish
Coroner, kept legal records for the crown
Intermural, latin for within the wall, atheletic competition within a school
Pumice, foam from latin, volcanic rock

WORDS
Avant Garde - an artist who opposes accepted ways of doing things
Billfold, a wallet to carry paper money
Caravan
Chuckwagon -  in 1866 rancher Charles Goodnight introduced the chuckwagon for transporting provisions and cooking equimpment.

Geneology, ancestry
Gorge - old French word for throat, means to stuff one's face

Intelligentsia, russian, society's intellectual elite
Integrity is the most looked up word

Meerschaum pipes
Mixer
Monochromatic, one color
Mortise and Tenon
Nirvana, freedom from pain, worry, and the external world
Personification
Quarry, open pit
Quintessence
Sobriquet, humorous nickname
Spackle spakul. Powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue)
Threshold, doorsill
Toof, member of upper class in England
Toxin
Wasp, dismissive insectoid name for an american ethnic group of british on-catholic ancestry
White lie, a small fib intended not to harm but to avoid embarrassment or distress

Xenophile, likes foreign things

BOAT
Ironclad, like the Monitor
Keel boat

LEGAL terms
Contempt of court

Custodian, in case parents die
Embezzle - to appropriate money or property fraudulently for one's own use
Executor takes care of wills

CRIME
Assault, aggravated, involves serious bodily injury

HEBREW
Bar Mitzvah - age 13

Jeopardy
Animals
Art
I don't read as many Books anymore ever since I got addicted to the internet.
Cooking
Geography course
History lesson
Movie

Plant life
Science
Sport history

perfume can enhance sexual attractiveness and fragrance

Hello

Chinese - ni hao

German - guten tag

Greek - kalimera

Japanese - konnichiwa

Swahili - jambo

Names word

Felix means happy

Jacob was a popular name from the Bible

Kirk is old Norse for church

Linda means pretty