Ethan Frome Vocabulary
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- mien
- Bearing or manner, especially as it reveals an inner state of mind- a dignified manner or conduct ex.)Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.
- cower
- To cringe in fear
- undulation
- A regular rising and falling or movement to alternating sides; movement in waves; A wavelike form, outline, or appearance
- deign
- To think it appropriate to one's dignity; condescend
- suffuse
- To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or lightcause; to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"
- taciturnity
- Habitually untalkative
- facetious
- Playfully jocular; humorous
- austere
- Severe or stern in disposition or appearance; somber and grave
- slatternly
- Characteristic of or befitting a slattern (An untidy, dirty woman)
- conjecture
- Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork
- effrontery
- Brazen boldness; presumptuousness
- animosity
- Bitter hostility or open enmity; active hatred
- innocuous
- Having no adverse effect; harmless
- querulous
- Given to complaining; peevish
- reticent
- Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself
- rill
- A small brook; a rivulet
- inexorable
- Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless
- convivial
- Fond of feasting, drinking, and good company; sociable
- scintillate
- To throw off sparks; flash
- volubility
- Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent
- languid
- Lacking energy or vitality; weak
- stoicism
- Indifference(Having no particular interest or concern to pleasure or pain; impassiveness (Devoid of or not subject to emotion)