Unit 5: Selection Vocabulary 2

This list covers Love in a Headscarf and "Sonnet 116."
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  1. adjust
    place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
    Cushions are plumped. Curtains are adjusted.
  2. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
    The kitchen door slams shut and my father is assailed by a cacophony of shrieking voices: “They’re here! They’re here! Open the door!”
  3. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
    Choosing what to wear has been a struggle. I have to be attractive enough for the man in question, yet modest and demure enough for his family.
  4. impact
    a strong influence
    Each scarf has been carefully draped and pinned in turn, and then analyzed for aesthetics and impact.
  5. compulsory
    required by rule
    The first meeting is a compulsory rite of passage.
  6. preamble
    a preliminary introduction, as to a statute or constitution
    Asians talking about families is like English people talking about the weather: a safe preamble that can be pursued endlessly.
  7. impediment
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
    Let me not to the marriage of true minds
    Admit impediments.
  8. alter
    become different in some particular way
    Love is not love
    Which alters when it alteration finds
  9. tempest
    a strong storm with violent winds
    O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
    That looks on tempests, and is never shaken
  10. bark
    a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
    It is the star to every wandering bark,
    Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
  11. compass
    an area in which something operates or has power or control
    Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
    Within his bending sickle's compass come
Created on Mon Nov 30 13:15:05 EST 2020 (updated Tue Dec 01 16:09:07 EST 2020)

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