Pilgrimage
Narcissus
Legend
Hookah
Elixir
Alchemist
date palm
omen
Gypsy
elixir of life
dune
abrade
Tiberius
Levant
Andalusia
Mecca
sacristy
scarab
rabbi
ewe
habituate
embedded
levanter
The Alchemist –Vocabulary
1.
_______________ a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romani and who traditionally live
by seasonal work and fortunetelling.
2. _______________ the former name for the geographical area of the eastern Mediterranean that is now
occupied by Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
3. _______________ a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection.
4. _______________ rub hard or scrub.
5. _______________ son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a
brilliant military career.
6. _______________ joint capital of Saudi Arabia.
7. _______________ a region in southern Spain on the Atlantic and the Mediterranean; formerly a center of
Moorish civilization.
8. _______________ a hypothetical substance believed to maintain life indefinitely.
9. _______________ a ridge of sand created by the wind.
10. _______________ tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit.
11. _______________ enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass.
12. _______________ a substance believed to cure all ills.
13. _______________ female sheep.
14. _______________ a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.
15. _______________ an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the
smoke is cooled by passing through water.
16. _______________ a sign of a thing about to happen.
17. _______________ a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings held.
18. _______________ a journey to a sacred place.
19. _______________ scarab beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians.
20. _______________ spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation.
21. _______________ familiarize psychologically or physically.
22. _______________ an easterly wind in the western Mediterranean area.
23. _______________ one who tried to change ordinary metals into gold.
Answer Key:
1.Gypsy
2.Levant
3.Narcissus
4.Abrade
5.Tiberius
6.Mecca
7.Andalusia
8.Elixir of Life
9.Dune
10.date palms
11.Embedded
12.Elixir
13.ewe
14.legend
15.hookah
16.omen
17.sacristy
18.pilgrimage
19.scarab
20.rabbi
21.habituate
22.levanter
23.alchemist