Publish or perish in the ivory tower of learning outcomes.
A puzzling question posed as a game or test of wit, typically requiring clever or lateral thinking to answer; also, anything that is mysterious or difficult to understand.
Simple, rural, or homely in character; made in a deliberately rough or simple style evoking the countryside. Can describe both literal rural settings and the aesthetic choices inspired by them.
A light, two-wheeled cart pulled by one or more people on foot, or pedaled like a tricycle, commonly used as a form of transportation in East and South Asia. Modern rickshaws are often motorized and serve as taxis in urban areas.
A correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, typically occurring at the end of lines in poetry or songs. Rhyming creates a musicality and pattern that is central to many poetic forms and songwriting traditions.
A photographic defect in which the eyes of a subject appear bright red or pink due to light from a camera flash reflecting off the retina and back into the lens. Red eye occurs most noticeably in low-light conditions when the pupil is dilated.
A 19th-century British Railways safety protocol requiring locomotive drivers to alert the signalman when stopped on a mainline, preventing catastrophic collisions. It's the kind of boring but crucial rule that certain Thomas the Tank Engine episodes somehow forgot to follow.
Standardized state exams that high school students have to pass—the academic checkpoint that separates the 'done' from the 'still suffering.' Getting through them is a rite of passage many New York students use to flex on their peers.