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Zora Neale Hurston
Vocabulary II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| prostrating | humbling yourself |
| usurper | one who assumes command |
| stolidness | emotionlessness |
| 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 and prostitution |
| emanations | that which is sent forth |
| transients | homeless persons who travel from place to place |
| dyke | an embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods |
| phosphorescent | emission of light without burning or by very slow burning without appreciable heat |
| droves | flocks |
| homage | respect |
| defilement | ruining |
| peevish | cranky |
| oblique | slanting |
| seraphs | celestial beings having three 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 |