Unit 2: Part 4 Vocabulary

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  1. surmise
    imagine to be the case or true or probable
    Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet
    Feels shorter than the Day
    I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
    Were toward Eternity—
  2. eternity
    time without end
    Since then—’tis Centuries—and yet
    Feels shorter than the Day
    I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
    Were toward Eternity—
  3. interpose
    be or come between
    I willed my Keepsakes—Signed away
    What portion of me be
    Assignable—and then it was
    There interposed a Fly—
  4. affliction
    a cause of great suffering and distress
    None may teach it—Any—
    ’Tis the Seal Despair—
    An imperial affliction
    Sent us of the Air—
  5. ample
    more than enough in size or scope or capacity
    I’ve known her—from an ample nation—
    Choose One—
    Then—close the Valves of her attention—
    Like Stone—
  6. finite
    bounded in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
    Society shall be
    Compared with that profounder site
    That polar privacy
    A soul admitted to itself—
    Finite Infinity.
  7. infinity
    time without end
    Society shall be
    Compared with that profounder site
    That polar privacy
    A soul admitted to itself—
    Finite Infinity.
  8. stir
    arouse the feelings or emotions of
    The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir.
  9. abeyance
    temporary cessation or suspension
    Creeds and schools in abeyance,
    Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never
    forgotten
  10. effuse
    flow or spill forth
    I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun,
    I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
  11. bequeath
    leave or give, especially by will after one's death
    I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love,

    If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
  12. stealthily
    in a manner marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
    The shrubs and trees, (as I lift my eyes they seem to be stealthily
    watching me,)
    While wind in procession thoughts, O tender and wondrous
    thoughts,
    Of life and death, of home and the past and loved, and of those that
    are far away
  13. robust
    sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction
    The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young
    fellows, robust, friendly,
    Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.
Created on Mon Oct 19 16:28:12 EDT 2020 (updated Mon Oct 26 14:06:27 EDT 2020)

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