Bluest Eye Vocabulary

1. abhorrent: [adj] repellent, hateful
2. acridness: [n] bitterness, acidity
3. addled: [adj] confused in mind, irrational, nonsensical
4. affluence: [n] wealth, state of material well being
5. ameliorate: [v] to make better, to improve
6. buffeted: [v] given blows, hits
7. chafe: [v] to rub roughly
8. chagrined: [v or adj] upset, bothered, irritated
9. complement: [v] to harmonize with, as complementary colors
10. covert: [adj] hidden, secret
11. dirge: [n] sad, mourning song
12. disinterested: [adj] without emotion or passion, detached, objective
13. dissipation: [n] squandering energy often through drinking excessibely
14. emasculate: [v] to deprive of manhood, to humiliate
15. epithets: [n] informal names, terms to refer to someone either in an endearing or in an insulting way
16. fabricate: [v] to build, to create
17. fervently: [adv] passionately, with feeling
18. fretful: [adj] anxious, bothered, worrisome, peevish
19. fructify: [v] to make fruitful
20. furtive: [adj] sneaking, hidden
21. harridans: [n] shrews, scolding, demanding women
22. interminable: [adj] neverending
23. irrevocable: [adj] irreversible, incapable of being taken back
24. malaise: [n] unease, illness

25. metaphysical: [adj] larger or greater than the physical, concerned with philosophical or spiritual matters
26. myraid: [adj] many, a multitude
27. peripheral: [adj] on the outside edges
28. pervade: [v] to infiltrate
29. petulant: [adj] sulky, spoiled
30. preen: [v] to admire oneself, to primp
31. pristine: [adj] pure
32. schemata: [n] order
33. solicitous: [adj] concerned about
34. soliloquoy: [n] (plural- soliloquies) speech spoken aloud to oneself
35. consolidate: [v] to put together (to make "solid" various things)
36. static: [adj] unchanging
37. strident: [adj] loud, clamoring
38. succumb: [v] to be defeated, to give up
39. tacitly: [adv] silently, understood without spoken words
40. timbre: [n] tone, quality of sound; as tone of voice
41. unsullied: [adj] undirtied, unpolluted