diva
a famous female opera singer, also used to mean a temperamental woman who is difficult to please.
sour grapes
used to refer to an attitude in which someone is resentful about not getting something they wanted.
submissive
meekly obedient, docile.
Sophia Loren
An Italian actress and sex symbol.
Ho Chi Minh
A Vietnamese communist statesman, who led the Viet Minh independence movement.
expatriate
A person living outside their native country.
whitey
A contemptuous term used to describe a white person.
ricksha
A two-wheeled, hooded vehicle used for transport mainly in Asian countries.
bounder
A man of little honor and few scruples.
lampoon
To criticize a figure, subject, or work, using satire and parody.
treatise
A very formal document systematically laying out a considered argument, e.g. for a legal policy.
bureaucrat
A worker employed within a rigidly defined hierarchical system dealing with procedural or managerial matters.
seppuku
Ritualistic Japanese ceremony preceding suicide.
imperialism
The political strategy of expanding a nation's power and influence through geographic and cultural domination of other regions.
espionage
Broad term covering a host of covert activities including secret surveillance, spying, theft and undercover infitration.
Madame Butterfly
An opera composed by Giacomo Puccini, originally staged in 1904.
civil servant
Term for a low-level government bureaucrat.
prophetic
Capable of foretelling future events.
obsequious
Acting in a servile way, fawning over someone with constant flattery, sycophantic.
Oriental
of, from, or characteristic of Asia, especially East Asia. Often used derogatorily towards people from Asia.
