Let's play...DEFINE THAT WORD!?

Question

These are all words that I know, although I had to look up the spelling of a couple. Can you define all of them without looking them up? You're on your honor, now! Put an asterisk before any definition you have to look up. Good luck!

Adamantine
Hegemony
Hermeneutics
Etruscan
Epistemology
Kemo Sabe
Keregma
Hokum
Oakum
Tintinnabulation
Triskaidekaphobia

You done well, Hunter!

Just thought I'd add numbers to the list to make it easier to keep the definitions straight.

1. Adamantine
2. Hegemony
3. Hermeneutics
4. Etruscan
5. Epistemology
6. Kemo Sabe
7. Keregma
8. Hokum
9. Oakum
10. Tintinnabulation
11. Triskaidekaphobia

Answer 1

1. being rigid in it's firmness
2. being dominant over others
3. a method of interpreting
4. either the language of, or a native of ancient Etruria
5. to understand and to know
6. this is assumed to mean 'trusted friend' in the Lone Ranger context, but the Navajo translation is 'soggy bush'
7. a Greek word which means "proclamation, announcement, preaching"
8. pretentious nonsense
9. loosely twisted hemp or jute fiber treated with tar or a tar derivative and used in caulking seams and packing joints
10. the ringing or tingling of bells
11. a fear of the number 13

Answer 2

Define Adamantine

Answer 3

1. strong as a rock
2. leadership role of a country
3. Study of Herman's Hermits
4. Relates to an ancient civilization in Italy, language
unrelated to others.
5. Philosophy term,nature of knowledge?
6. No idea,can't even think of a joke.
7. Baloney, bull crap
8. A packing material, put into some things?
9. Wasn't this word coined by Edgar Allen Poe, in The
Bells?
10. Fear of the number 13.

Answer 4

adamantine= hard like a diamond
hegemony= a dominant state over its allies. like us to canada
etruscan= etruria's people
tintinnabulation= the ringing sound you get from a bell.
i don't know the others.