Some Interesting Vocab Words 2.0

For the first vocab post, click here.

In the spirit of the last vocab-related post, I again will try to skew The System (that's its new name now).

• This vocab word was a little too late for Easter: a Judas (yes, this word is capitalized) is a betrayer. An alternative meaning is "a peephole".
• We seem to be Bible-centric today! A Jezebel, named the Old Testament Jezebel, wife of Ahab, who did not worship her husband's god, is a wicked, immoral, or shameless woman. (I find it slightly nerving that women in the Old Testaments were either the wife, sister, or daughter of a man.)
• I did not receive this word from my emails, but I've liked it since I read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter". A purloined letter is a stolen letter.
• Here's a fun word: a jehu is either a cab driver or a fast driver. Funny, because the cabs I get on always trickle. This also has a Biblical connotation. (After looking at the newsletter again I found out that this week's overall theme is Bible characters--see next entry.)
• I also got "Jonah", a person which is believed to bring bad luck. Hey, he did bring the Almighty's wrath upon him and his dinky little ship.
• The verb "anneal" has several, unrelated meanings. It could mean "to toughen or temper", "to relieve internal stress", "to remove or prevent internal stress in some substances such as glass by heating", or "to fuse colors together in glass, metalware, etc. by heating". On second thought, some of them do relate...
• A second fiddle is a secondary role, or a person in such a role. This is music-related.
• To peregrinate is to journey or travel, especially by foot. We get the falcon name from this word (or was it the other way around?).
• This is an especially humorous word. A shirty person is a ill-tempered one. Does that mean wearing shirts makes us short-tempered?

Once again, I hope you dear readers can make use of these interesting vocab words. Remember, kids: don't be a Jonah, Jezebel, Judas, or a jehu: auto insurance is up these days, like everything else in this rotten economy.