Unit 5: Part 4 Vocabulary

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  1. obscure
    make unclear or less visible
    Other desires and other hopes beset me,
    Hopes which obscure but cannot do thee wrong.
  2. languish
    lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
    And even yet, I dare not let it languish,
    Dare not indulge in Memory’s rapturous pain
  3. rapturous
    feeling great delight
    And even yet, I dare not let it languish,
    Dare not indulge in Memory’s rapturous pain
  4. gaunt
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
    An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
    In blast-beruffled plume,
    Had chosen thus to fling his soul
    Upon the growing gloom.
  5. terrestrial
    of this earth
    So little cause for carolings
    Of such ecstatic sound
    Was written on terrestrial things
    Afar or nigh around
  6. prod
    poke or thrust abruptly
    “But some one digs upon my grave?
    My enemy?—prodding sly?”
  7. grandeur
    the quality of being magnificent or splendid
    The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
  8. smudge
    a blemish made by dirt
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell
  9. brink
    a region marking a boundary
    And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—
  10. blight
    any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting
    It is the blight man was born for,
    It is Margaret you mourn for.
  11. lintel
    a horizontal beam over a door or window
    So set, before its echoes fade,
    The fleet foot on the sill of shade.
    And hold to the low lintel up
    The still-defended challenge cup.
  12. rue
    sadness associated with some wrong or disappointment
    “The heart out of the bosom
    Was never given in vain;
    ’Tis paid with sighs a plenty
    And sold for endless rue.”
Created on Thu Oct 22 16:02:42 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Oct 30 14:19:01 EDT 2020)

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