#14 The bluest eye
Terms
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- drayman
- n; the driver of a dray-a strong cart for carrying heavy loads
- Gelid
- adj; icy, very cold
- genuflect
- v; to bend the knee in reverence or worship
- macabre
- adj; gruesome, grim ghastly; pertaining to or representing death
- fastidious
- adj; excessivly critical or demanding; characterized by excessive care
- sloven
- the adj form is usually slovenly; sloven is usually a noun but here it is used as an adj- careless or slipshod
- jaundiced
- adj; distorted or prejudiced as with envy or resentment
- archipelago
- n; and island group
- abatement
- n; the state of being decreased or diminished
- moirai
- n pl; individual destinies (singuar- moire- the will of the gods-fate)
- pompadour
- n; a hair style that is raised up in the front
- satiety
- n; the state of being satisfied fully (from the verb to sate)
- deity
- n; god
- strophe
- n; the part or an ancient Greek chorual ode sung by the chorus when moving from right to left (used in plays of Sophocles and other dramatists)
- prolific
- adj; characterized by abundant productivity
- arabesque
- n; and elaborate design- a form of ornamentation in art and music
- bilious
- adj; extremely unpleasant or distasteful; relating to bile or an excess secretion of bile
- restive
- adj; restless
- epiphany
- n; the sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature of something
- insurgent
- n &adj; a rebel
- misanthrope
- n; hater of mankind
- Ameliorate
- v; to improve
- antistrophe
- n; followsa strophe adn the chorus moves from left to right
- diffident
- adj; lacking confidence in oneself
- threnody
- n; a song, speech, poem, or lamentation, esp. for the dead
- mulatto
- n; a person who is mixed negro adn caucasian
- solicitous
- adj; concerned or anxious (anxious doesn't mean eager