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Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by, Carson McCullers.
We are reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in celebration of Carson McCullers's birthday: February 19, 1917. “I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.” The Influence of Racism on Carson McCullers and Her Literary Works
SCIMITAR: a short sword with a curved blade that broadens toward the point, used originally in Eastern countries.
ReplyDeleteFLYING-JINNY: a usually simple homemade merry-go-round
ReplyDeleteSUBTERFUGE: deceit used in order to achieve one's goal.
ReplyDeleteUNCTUOUS: excessively or ingratiatingly flattering; oily.
ReplyDeleteDECORUM: behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.
ReplyDeleteDOLOROUS: feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress.
ReplyDeleteFERVID: intensely enthusiastic or passionate, especially to an excessive degree.
ReplyDeleteFERMENT: a commotion or excitement.
ReplyDeleteNEPHRITIS: Inflammation of the kidney, which causes impaired kidney function.
ReplyDeleteELOCUTION: the skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation.
ReplyDeleteDOFFER: someone who removes ("doffs") bobbins, pirns or spindles holding spun fiber such as cotton or wool from a spinning frame and replaces them with empty ones.
ReplyDeletePELLAGRA: is a disease caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin (vitamin B3). Symptoms include inflamed skin, diarrhea, dementia, and sores in the mouth. Areas of the skin exposed to either sunlight or friction are typically affected first.
ReplyDeleteSERFDOM: the state of being a serf or feudal laborer.
ReplyDeleteMENDICANT: given to begging.
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