Travel

1. antipodal: on the opposite side of the globe; diametrically opposite

2. cartography: art or business of drawing or making charts or mats. The original meaning of chart was a map for the use of navigation indicating the outline of coasts, position of rocks, sandbanks, and channels.

3. concierge: doorkeeper; caretaker; custodian; janitor. The concierge in French and other European hotels has a more important position than is implied by the title of janitor or custodian

4. hegira: any flight or journey to a more desirable or congenial place than where one is. Hegira was the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina to escape persecution in 622 A.D., a date regarded as the beginning of the Muslim era.

5. hustings: the route followed by a campaigner for political office; an election platform; the proceedings at an election. The original Old English word referred to a lord’s household assembly as distinct from a general assembly.

6. landmark: any fixed object used to mark the boundary of a piece of land; any prominent feature of the landscape, serving to identify a particular locality; an event or discovery considered as a high point or a turning point in the history of development of something.

7. peripatetic: moving from place to place; itinerant; of the followers of Aristotle, who walked about the lyceum while he was teaching

8. portmanteau: a case or bag to carry clothing while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves. The literal French meaning is “cloak carrier” A more recent use of the word in linguistics is to define a blend, a word made by putting together parts of other words, as dandle, made from dance and handle.

9. safari: a journey or hunting expedition, especially in East Africa; the caravan of such an expedition; a long, carefully planned trip, usually with a large entourage.

10. tandem: a two-wheeled carriage drawn by horses harnessed one behind the other; a bicycle with two seats and sets of pedals placed one behind the other; a relationship between two persons or things involving cooperative action and mutual dependence. Tandem may be a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.

11. transmigrate: to move from one habitation or country to another; in religion, to pass into some other body at death (of the soul). Believers in reincarnation and metempsychosis also feel that the souls of the dead successively return to earth in new forms and bodies.

12. traverse: to pass, move, or extend over or across; oppose; to survey or inspect carefully; to swivel or pivot; to move across a mountain slope in an oblique direction (as in skiing); a zigzagging course.

13. trek: to travel by ox wagon; to travel slowly or laboriously. Colloquially the word means “to go, especially on foot.” Trek is also used as a noun.

14. wanderlust: an impulse, longing, or urge to have or wander.

15. wayfarer: a person who travels, especially form place to place on foot.


Exercises

I. Which Word Comes to Mind?
In each of the following, read the statement, then circle the word that comes to mind.

1. A train makes whistle-stops across the Midwest
(trek, hustings, hegira)
2. Infanticipate, slithy, swalm
(peripatetic, concierge, portmanteau)
3. The Supreme Court decision on school integration
(cartography, landmark, antipodal)
4. Tracking lions in their native habitat
(safari, wayfarer, wanderlust)
5. A bicycle built for two
(transmigrate, tandem, traversel)
6. In total disagreement
(traverse, tandem, antipodal)
7. the annual trip to a summer residence
(landmark, safari, hegira)
8. The “feel of flesh” aspect of electioneering
(wayfarer, hustings, trek)
9. Miles to go before I sleep
(traverse, peripatetic, transmigrate)
10. Take only what is necessary
(tandem, trek, portmanteau)

II. True or False?
In the space provided, indicate whether each statement is true or false?
____ 1. A safari can properly be described as a trek through the jungle
____ 2. The art of cartography has proved to be helpful for navigators.
____ 3. The early Peripaletics were philosophers
____ 4. Transmigration is a form of ESP
____ 5. Wanderlust describes the sensuality of the homeless criminal.
____ 6. Gaining the good will of the concierge can prove very helpful for a detective
____ 7. People who see eye to eye for the most part are said to be antipodal
____ 8. Transmigration can refer to movements of the soul as well as of the body
____ 9. Broadly speaking, cartography includes traveling by wagon, car, train, or plane
____ 10. The handshake of the former enemies was considered a landmark gesture.

III. Find the Imposter
Find and circle the one word on each line that is not related to the other three.
1. peripatetic hegira globe-trotting parabolic
2. vagabondage wayfarer valediction nomadism
3. tirade trek harangue diatribe
4. astronaut travail navigator pilgrim
5. anticipate antipodal different antithetic

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