Tuesday, March 1, 2011

More vocab...YAY!!!!

Solicitous
Adj.
Careful or particular.
“The same hope that kept them picking beans for other farmers…kept them solicitous of white peoples children.”
Catholic priests are not at all solicitous about the age of those they molest.

Malevolence
n.
Ill will, Malice.
“…the slurred remarks and the staggering childish malevolence of their employers.”
I have much malice for the Tea Party.

Fastidious
Adj.
Particular, critical.
“She had neither iron nor clothes but did not stop her fastidious lining up of pleats…”
Girls are more fastidious than the generally nonchalant male gender.

Dirge
n.
A funeral song or tune.
“On January third the sun came out—and so did Shadrack with his childish dirge.”
I sang a dope ass dirge at Willy May’s funeral.

Unassailable
n.
Not subject to dispute.
“The sealed window soothed her with its sturdy termination, its unassailable finality.”
The existence of evolution is unassailable.

Timbre
n.
The characteristic quality of a sound.
“It gave her voice the timbre she wanted it to have…”
My voice is known far and wide for its angelic timbre.

Ornate
Adj.
Elaborately decorated.
An absence so decorative, so ornate, it was difficult for her to understand how she had ever endured…”
Louis the XIV had quite an ornate palace, if I say so myself.

Mercurial
n.
Animated, lively.
“…she admires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties, served only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings with him…”
Max is in no way boring, he is quite mercurial.

Trepidation
n.
Fear.
“…she calls with some trepidation: Willy!”
My quick wit and cunning presence instills trepidation in my enemies.

Imbue
v.
To inspire.
“That’s just the spirit I want to imbue them with!”
Oprah is known to imbue wealthy, slightly overweight, post-menopausal women.

1 comment:

  1. You have to imbue something. For example, Oprah imbues these people with hope. Also, Willy is described as mercurial, meaning volatile, not animated. In your mercurial sentence, use a semicolon instead of a comma. Where are your images!? 8/10

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