Winter Vocabulary Bluest Eye

fastidious

[adj] ultra-neat, tidy, careful, perfect, exacting

epiphany

[n] spontaneous thought/idea that reveals something significant, a revelation

extemporize

[v] to speak without preparation, to ad lib

macabre

[adj] ghastly, shocking, gruesome, suggesting death or decay

placidly

[adv] calmly, quietly, peacefully

guileless

[adj] without deceit or trickery

inviolable

[adj] not able to be disturbed or intruded upon, pristing

ostensibly

[adv] apparently

surreptitiously

[adv] in a sly way, so that the action will be noticed as little as possible

preen

[v] to smooth or clean; to admire or fuss over one's self

covet

[v] to envy, to be jealous of; to desire for one's own