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Watching God vocab 2
Their eyes were watching God Vocabulary 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sullen | gloomy |
| discomfiture | embarrassment |
| prostrating | humbling yourself |
| usurper | one who assumes command |
| stolidness | emotionless |
| commiserated | sympathized |
| ostentatiously | pretentiously |
| promontories | peninsulas |
| menial | unskilled |
| counterpane | a bedspread |
| scimitars | a curved, single-edged sword |
| temporized | to act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument or postpone a decision |
| denounce | condemn |
| jook | a roadside or rural establishment offering liquor, dancing, and often gambling |
| emanations | that which is sent is sent forth |
| transients | homeless persons who travel from place to place |
| dyke | an embarkment of earth and rock built to prevent floods |
| phosphorescent | emission of light without burning or by every slow burning without appreciable heat |
| droves | flocks |
| homage | respect |
| defilement | ruining |
| peevish | cranky |
| oblique | slanting |
| seraphs | a celestial being having 3 pairs of wings |
| fracas | quarrel |
| shanties | roughly built shacks |
| bas-relief | sculpture |
| insensate | numb |
| deity | God |
| transmutation | change |
| cherubim | angel |
| loping | jogging |
| wanton | immoral |
| deftly | skillfully |