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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 |