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Zora Neale Hurston
Vocabulary I
Question | Answer |
---|---|
resignation | acceptance |
pugnacious | aggressive |
inaudible | impossible to hear |
languid | unenergetic |
diffused | dim |
expound | explain |
mien | appearance |
pelting | bombarding |
sanctum | office |
lacerating | slashing |
affirmation | confirmation |
overseer | supervisor |
brutes | beasts |
calyxes | sepals of a flower considered as a group |
reproof | criticism |
desecrating | vandalizing |
cosmic | vast |
dissolution | closure |
conjectures | guesses |
portly | fat |
cowed | intimidate |
promenading | strolling |
incredulous | disbelieving |
percale | a closely woven cotton fabric used for sheets and clothing |
surly | rude |
calico | a coarse brightly printed cloth |
brazen | bold |
temerity | nerve |
doleful | unhappy |
fractious | irritable |
coquetry | flirtation |
proffered | offered |
beseeching | insistent |
sullen | gloomy |
discomfiture | embarrassment |