SNOWY - Answers1. Schadenfreude (from Greek schaden, harm, and freude, joy) is the feeling of malicious pleasure over the misfortune of someone else. She wasn’t a bit ashamed of her feeling of schadenfreude when she saw the rude driver getting a ticket.2. A null set (from Latin nullus, n(e) not + ūllus any) is one that is empty. The math teacher explained that the set of odd numbers equally divisible by two would be a null set. 3. Ozymandias (aka Ramesses the Great), an ancient-Egyptian Pharaoh, was the subject of a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which dealt in part with the eventual downfall of the most powerful people and empires. 4. A wassail (from a contraction of Middle English waeshaeil, be healthy) is a drinking party (or the drinking, or a toast). The villagers celebrated the return of warm weather with much wassailing and singing. 5. The old wassail cup. The y in such phrases is simply a printer’s adaptation of the Old-English thorn, which represented the th sound in modern English. |
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