The Bluest Eye vocabulary "Autumn"

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

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

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