The Good Samaritan

(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) New Testament a figure in one of Christ’s parables (Luke 10:30-37) who is an example of compassion towards those in distress
a kindly person who helps another in difficulty or distress
Someone who helps another in need for compassionate motives and with no thought of reward.
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) New Testament a figure in one of Christ’s parables (Luke 10:30-37) from the root word in the bible “Samaritane ” (from what I could tell…)
Biblical Allusion
The young man gave help whenever it was needed yet asked for nothing in return, he is truly a “Good Samaritan”.

gal-a-had (noun)
One considered to be noble, pure, or chivalrous
a knight of King Arthur’s Round Table and one of the three achievers of the Holy Grail. He is the illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine of Corbenic, and is renowned for his gallantry and purity
Mythological
He always tried to do the right thing and when he did people thought of him as Galahad.

Pronunciation: Noun, (Don Joo-uhn)
Modern Definition: a legendary Spanish nobleman famous for his many seductions and dissolute life.
Origin: Originating in popular legend, he was first given literary personality in the tragic drama El burlador de Sevilla (1630; “The Seducer of Seville,” translated in The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest), attributed to the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina. Through Tirso’s tragedy, Don Juan became a universal character.
Origin Label: Literary because he is from a book and other novels
Sentence: After going on the date with her boyfriend, she realized he is more of a Don Juan, a player and lives a dissolute life, so as a result she dumped him for someone nicer.

Part of speech- nounDefinition- king of the Huns who invaded Europe: defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451 at Châlonssur-Marne in France.
Origin- the origin of Attila’s name is uncertain. But believed to be east Germanic.
Origin label-Attila is a historical origin. He was a conqueror of many cities. He was cruel and savage.

ber – zurk ; noun.
Modern definition – destructively or frenetically violent.
The word berserk is of Viking (Norse) origin. A berserker was a warrior of great strength and courage and fought with wild ferocity.
Historical allusion
After losing the first match, the boxer went berserk, fighting violently, until he was titled the new state champion

fraidi ; noun
Modern definition – an efficient, faithful male aide or servant.
Friday comes from the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. Friday is a character in the book who is a servant that is competent and loyal.
Literary allusion
Because David was such a Friday, efficient and faithful, until he was betrayed.

Definition: This allusion represents a big sin committed
Origin: 2 Samuel, Chapter 11-12 After King David and Bathsheba had an affair and she became pregnant, David had her husband Uriah put on the front lines of battle so he would die.
Type: The David and Bathsheba allusion is a Biblical allusion.
d. Sentence: After he left for work, he kissed his wife goodbye and left for work in which he met up with another girl, committing a sin, as if he was King David from the story of David and Bathsheba.
e. Modern definition: the Bible, Bathsheba was the wife of Uriah and later of David. Kind David took her away from Uriah and impregnated her.
f. Origin and history: This allusion represents a big sin committed
The story of King David and Bathsheba’s relations was written in the old testament of the bible in 2 Samuel, Chapter 11-12
After King David and Bathsheba had an affair and she became pregnant, David had her husband Uriah put on the front lines of battle so he would die.

Pronunciation: fawl-staf-ee-uhn
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: A loud, good humored man, very good natured
Origin: It came from the character Falstaff from Henry IV. He was a loud and good humored man.
Type of Allusion: Literary
Original Sentence: Lest, the man had his falstaffian qualities about him, yet we weren’t sure if it was his physical appearance or his characteristics.

[der-ik] noun
1)A small crane used to lift heavyweight objects 2) Towerlike framework over and oil well
originally a hangman, the gallows, after the surname of a well-known Tyburn hangman, circa 1600
Historical orgin
When you looking to lift a boulder , just get a derrick!

1. [kaz-uh-noh-vuh, kas-; It. kah-sah-naw-vah]
2. A smooth-talking charmer who has mastered the art of finding, meeting, attracting and seducing beautiful women into the bedroom. One he accomplishes his goal, he leaves the woman in fear of having a relationship and proceeds to find his next conquest.
(urban dictionary)
3. Giovanni Giacomo Casanova (1725-98) was a famous Venetian adventurer and writer who romanced well over a hundred women in the course of his travels. In modern parlance, a Casanova is a charismatic man with a reputation for having many romantic conquests.
4. The type of allusion is a historical.
5. “He’s a good time cowboy Casanova leaning up against the record machine. Looks like a cool drink of water but he’s candy coated misery.”
“Cowboy Casanova” – Carrie Underwood

Can-o-py
Modern definition
1.
a covering, usually of fabric, supported on poles or suspended above a bed, throne, exalted personage, or sacred object.
2.
an overhanging projection or covering, as a long canvas awning stretching from the doorway of a building to a curb.
3.
an ornamental, rooflike projection or covering.
4.
Also called crown canopy, crown cover. the cover formed by the leafy upper branches of the trees in a forest.
5.
the sky.
6. the part of a parachute that opens up and fills with air, usually made of nylon or silk.
7. the transparent cover over the cockpit of an airplane.
Origin: 1350-1400; Middle English canope < Medieval Latin canōpēum, variant of Latin cōnōpēum mosquito net < Greek kōnōpeîon bed with net to keep gnats off, equivalent to kṓnōp ( s ) gnat + -eion, neuter of -eios adj. suffix Type of allusion: Historical Original sentence: 'The drapes formed a canopy over the scared shrine of a great god who fought to protect this world.'`

Pronunciation-
(hand-rahy-ting on thuh wawl)
noun
Modern Definition- a warning of danger
Origin/History-This comes from the Bible verse Daniel 5:5-31. A disembodied hand wrote on a palace wall saying that King Belshazzar was going to be overthrown
Type of Allusion- This is a biblical allusion
Example- Although Klein Oak’s football team went to playoffs last year, this year the handwriting is on the wall as they barely make it through their games.

(ī – ŭv – thĕ – nēd’l) Noun
This Allusion is used as a comparison of something extremely difficult to accomplish to objects being slipped through this.
This Allusion originates from religion in which each says that something is as difficult as slipping a camel/elephant through the eye of a needle.
Biblical Origin, “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Matthew 19:24
Skiing at that instant resembled forcing a camel through the eye of a needle, a task that was near-impossible, as the mountain’s dangerously steep slopes disappeared behind the trees below.

(Dahn kee-HO-tee), noun
An impractical idealist
Don Quixote is a character from the book Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The story is about his naive personalities and his adventures trying to be a knight and searching for the ‘princess’ he loves.
Literary
After she halfheartedly told him of her friend who had made fun of her, he pulled a Don Quixote and, with an impractical method of approach, tried to create peace between the two by having them hug and apologize to each other.

Dun-ga-ree, noun
A sturdy, coarse, blue, denim fabric.
The word “dungaree” comes from the Hindi word “dungri”, the name of a village in India. This village produced a lot of cotton fabric which later became known as “dungaree”.
This is a historical allusion.
And yet the old dogs fur was dungaree, sturdy and coarse as if the winter cold had no affect on it.

Pronunciation: pan-glos-ee-uhn
Definition: Optimistic
Origin & History: an optimistic character in Voltaire’s Candide (1759) ; name of the philosopher and tutor in Voltaire’s “Candide”
Literary Origin
She was very Panglossian in winning the game causing a huge uproar in the crowd- with optimistic cheering and banners everywhere.

Pronunciation – Me·de·a [mi-dee-uh] noun

Definition – a sorceress, daughter of Aeëtes (king of and wife of Jason, whom she assisted in obtaining the Golden Fleece: when Jason deserted her, she killed their children. Cunning, deceitful, median.

Origin – tragedy written by Euripides in 431 BC.

Type of allusion – Mythological

Sentence – Erin was the epitome of Medea after she cunningly snuck out of the house to attend a concert, yet when she came home she forgot to lock the door.

The pronunciation of Neptune is Nep- toon.
Noun
Modern Definition: The 8th planet from the
sun.
Neptune originated from the Roman and
Greek God of the Sea, also known as
Poseidon. He is often portrayed as a
bearded man with a trident or a spear.
Neptune is a mythological allusion.
Although Neptune, the God of the Sea,
can’t control the water vapor in the air,
he can cause water spouts to form, and
he uses this to his own advantage against
suspicious ships.

buhm-buhl (verb)
to speak or behave clumsily or faltering, to make a humming or droning sound; Middle English bomblem; a clumsy religious figure (a beadle) in a work of literature
1525-35; perhaps blend of bungle and stumble
Literary allusion
The lawyer began to bumble, or speak clumsily, through his defense, which caused his client to be pronounced guilty of the crime.

Boycott – Verb – [boi-kot]
Definition – to abstain from buying or using
Origin & History- Boycott, a former British soldier, refused to charge lower rents and ejected his tenants. Boycott and his family found themselves without servants, farmlands, service in stores, or mail delivery. Boycott’s name was quickly adapted as the term for this treatment.
Type – Historical
Sentence – “The boycott of Chick-fil-a has people every where discussing why they shouldn’t eat there.”

Hektōr, noun
Modern definition is bully
Hector was a Trojan prince and he was considered the greatest fighter for Troy in the Trojan War. He was the first born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba. He was the main defender of Troy in the Trojan War and killed 31 Greeks in all. One of the people he killed was Patroclus, who’s title was the greatest warrior for the Greeks. He was a friend of Achilles, who avenged his friend’s death by killing Hector and dragging his corpse around Patroclus’s grave 3 times. In late 14A.D., Hector’s name came to mean “a valiant warrior”, to represent all he had done to serve Troy.
Originated from Greek mythology
After everyone witnessed him take the other boy’s lunch money, he was labeled as a hector, a bully, throughout the kids at his school, and now he believes himself to be the ruler of the school.

2. First and final. First and Last.
3. Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet and Omega is the last letter. “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” (Revelation 22:13) God says this to show his eternity.
biblical allusion.

[leth-er-jee] noun
The state of being drowsy and dull, unenergetic, lazy or sluggish in activity.
Lethargy comes from “Lethe” the river of forgetfulness/oblivion that flows through Hades in the underworld.
Greek Mythology Origin.
Even though she didn’t have her routine coffee that morning, she had no sign of lethargy or sluggishness, but she did wear her shirt inside out all day.

Pronunciation- [don-ee-brook] / Part of Speech- Noun
Modern Definition- a scene caused by a heated argument; a riot
Origin- Donnybrook is a name of a village in Ireland that held annual fairs that was famous for rioting and brawling; or a free-for-all-brawl.
Type Of Allusion: Historical
Original Sentence: Last night donnybrook, the messy brawl was still going on, but although the police showed up everyone had still continued their chaos.

Part of Speech- Noun
Modern Definition- Was third son of David in the Bible. Hebrew name means “father of peace”
Origin- He was son of King David who leads a rebellion against his father and while fleeing gets his head caught in a tree and killed by his cousin Joab. 2 Samuel
Biblical

brob·ding·nag·i·an
Gigantic, Giant, Huge, Large, ect.
“huge, immense, gigantic,” 1728, from Brobdingnag.
Literary Allusion
The Girl looked over the
City that she was Brobdingnagain to,
Looking off into the sun set.

[mawr-feen], Noun
a white, bitter, crystalline alkaloid, used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
Morphine used to be Opium which was unreliable because of the Opium being a bad batch that might not kill pain. Friedrich Sertürner started to experiment with Opium and created Morphine which was reliable at killing the pain.
Historical Origin
Morphine is the improved version of Opium which was created after Friedrich Sertürner had experimented with Opium, and when he discovered Morphine it was a major historical discovery in the medical field.

1. Jacob is pronounced [Jay-kuhb] and it is a noun.
2. Jacob is defined as “supplanter” or a person who takes another’s place.
3. Jacob deceived his brother Esau of his birthright and his father’s (Isaac) blessing. Jacob was wise, and his brother allowed himself and his children to fall to the sin of worshipping idols. Jacob tricked his brother (who took the birthright very lightly) into giving him his birthright, and in the end of his father’s life, Isaac gave him his blessings. (Found in Genesis 25-37, 42, 45-49)
4. This allusion is a biblical allusion.
5. He looked at his friend’s gift as though it was that of Jacob, but really it was just cake.

Part of speech: noun 24/7
Pronunciation: fyoor-awr, er
Modern Definition: Anger, or outburst of public excitement or rage.
Origin: The origin of the this word comes from the Greek mythological story about the furies. These were demon-like creatures with wings. In the story that they came from the underworld that was ruled by Hades.
Type of Allusion: Mythological
Since crowd joined together in a furor, public outburst, the referee knew he made a horrible call, and once it was fixed they were calm and the anger disappeared.

frang-kuhn-stahyn (Noun)
The monster or destructive agent.
The origin of Frankenstein is from a book “Paradise Lost”. The monster was not originally called Frankenstein but over time the miss used word became its true meaning.
Literary Origin
The “Thing” ran down the hall as a Frankenstein, a horrible monster, for someone had offended the creature ,even though we knew it was harmless we felt the need to run.

Pronunciation- (hur-meez)
Part of Speech- Noun, masculine
Modern definition- Hermes, the messenger and herald of the Greek Gods, the son of Zeus and Maia, and the god of merchants, thieves, and oratory.
The origin of the word Hermes is somewhat obscure and scholars have not always agreed where it began. The origin of Hermes is Latin, from Greek Hērmes and the first known use in the fourteenth century.
Type of Allusion: Mythological or Greek
Because of the accelerated delivery of his message and the astonishing effects of his statement of faith, he would have even impressed Hermes, the profound messenger of the Greek Gods.

Pronunciation/ Speech: /’Harpie’/ It is a noun.

Modern Definition: A predatory women.

Origin & History: In Greek Mythology it was one of the winged spirits best known for stealing all the food from Phineus. Phineus was banned by Zeus for revealing to many secrets and sent him to an island with a buffet of food. But the Harpy would always steal his food before he could eat so Phineus would starve.
Type of Allusion: This allusion is from Greek mythology and it represents a ugly falcon with a womens face . If you tell someone she looks like a harpy they will think you said that he/she is ugly.Original Sentence: The men being annoyed by the harpy women decided to move out.

-blu-mə(r)/
– Undergarments for dance or active activates
-Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818-1894
-it is an allusion used for history.
-upon receiving her test the girl realized all of the bloomers she made.

hal-see-uhn
Calm;very peaceful for a short period of time.

Halcyon is a name for a bird of Greek legend which is commonly associated with the kingfisher. The phrase comes from the ancient belief that fourteen days of calm weather were to be expected around the winter solstice.
Mythological
We must enjoy these Halcyon days before the storm comes.

1.Fil-thee Loo-ker
2. Money
3.”Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous:” I Timothy 3:3 Meaning that Timothy would not give to temptations but would stay chaste and follow the will of God.
4. Biblical
5. The thief would do anything for filthy lucre, money, lest his employer be consumed by greed, and wouldn’t pay.

1 Joh-nuh (Noun)
2 A person or thing that is regarded to bringing bad luck
3 Jonah was a man who defied God’s word. Jonah then retreated to a boat filled with civilians on it. God had created terrible waves and storms to rock the boat, until Jonah was thrown off. He was forced to spend 3 in a whale’s stomach, and was then thrown-up on shore unharmed.
4 Biblical Allusion
5 After his last car wreck everyone has labeled him a Jonah, since it was the third car he had lost this week.

Joeb
Modern Day Definition – a piece of work, especially a specific task done as part of the routine of one’s occupation or for an agreed price.
Job was originally from the Book Of Job from the bible, and was the man’s name in the story.
Job is a biblical allusion.
Even after losing his children, herd, and health, he didn’t want others to think that he has lost his faith, so Job, the blessed man, was able to withstand all of the tortures that Satan had given him.

Pronunciation- (joo-noh-Esk) adjective

Definition- Having stately bearing and imposing beauty like the Roman Goddess Juno.

Origin- Originates from Roman Mythology’s main Goddess Juno, the beautiful wife of Jupiter.

Label- Mythological

Sentence- The Junoesque, tall and beautiful, model stunned the crowd, and caught the eye of many people as she walked down the aisle.
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Pronunciation- (bab’-it) noun

Definition- A narrow-minded, self satisfied person with middle class values and materialistic behavior.

Origin- Babbitt is a novel written by Sinclair Lewis, that is a satire about the vacuity and conformity of the middle class.

Label- Literary

Sentence- Johnny has grown to act like a Babbitt, narrow-minded and complacent, and has gained a materialistic personality since he moved into the neighborhood.

1. Bōd-ler-ize/ verb

2. To remove material that is considered improper or offensive in a text or account to simplify the meaning.

3. This word came from an English man named Thomas Bowdler. He was best known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, which was kind of an edited version of Shakespeare’s writings more suitable for innocent minds. He got the idea of doing this from his dad who would read aloud Shakespeare and omitted or altered some parts that were not suitable for his wife and children.

4. Historical allusion

5. After my grandma reads a book she attempts to bowdlerize, change text in a book, by crossing out inappropriate words so me and my siblings can read them.