Unit 6: Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers "Theme in Yellow," "Once by the Pacific," "Annabel Lee," "The Highwayman," "The Filling Station," "Name Giveaway," "Ancestors," and "For My Father."
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  1. tawny
    having the color of tanned leather
    I light the prairie cornfields
    Orange and tawny gold clusters
    And I am called pumpkins.
  2. dusk
    the time of day immediately following sunset
    When dusk is fallen
    Children join hands
    And circle round me
    Singing ghost songs
    And love to the harvest moon
  3. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
    The shattered water made a misty din.
  4. intent
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
    The cliff in being backed by continent;
    It looked as if a night of dark intent
    Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
  5. bear
    move while holding up or supporting
    A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
    My beautiful Annabel Lee;
    So that her highborn kinsmen came
    And bore her away from me,
    To shut her up in a sepulcher
    In this kingdom by the sea.
  6. peaked
    somewhat ill or prone to illness
    And dark in the dark old inn yard a stable wicket creaked
    Where Tim the ostler listened. His face was white and peaked.
  7. writhe
    move in a twisting or contorted motion
    She twisted her hands behind her, but all the knots held good!
    She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood!
  8. refrain
    part of a song or poem that recurs at regular intervals
    And the blood of her veins in the moonlight, throbbed to her love’s refrain.
  9. brandish
    exhibit aggressively
    Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky,
    With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.
  10. translucent
    allowing light to pass through diffusely
    Oh, but it is dirty!
    —this little filling station,
    oil-soaked, oil-permeated
    to a disturbing, over-all
    black translucency.
    Be careful with that match!
  11. saucy
    improperly forward or bold
    Father wears a dirty,
    oil-soaked monkey suit
    that cuts him under the arms,
    and several quick and saucy
    and greasy sons assist him
  12. extraneous
    not essential
    Why the extraneous plant?
  13. crochet
    needlework by interlocking stitches with a hooked needle
    (Embroidered in daisy stitch
    with marguerites, I think,
    and heavy with gray crochet.)
  14. high-strung
    in a very tense state
    Somebody
    arranges the rows of cans
    so that they softly say:
    ESSO-SO-SO-SO
    to high-strung automobiles.
    Somebody loves us all.
  15. ascend
    travel up
    TWO SWANS ASCENDING FROM STILL WATERS
    must be a name too hard to remember.
  16. aristocracy
    a privileged class holding hereditary titles
    Or did the slavecatchers
    take only the aristocracy
    and leave the fieldhands...
  17. bygone
    well in the past; former
    Yet I’m as proud of him
    as of any king or prince
    dreamed up in fantasies
    of bygone glory.
  18. hack
    chop or cut away
    He came over the ocean
    carrying Mt. Fuji
    on his back/Tule Lake on his chest
    hacked through the brush
    of deserts
  19. shield
    protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm
    iron
    in your eyes
    to shield
    the pain
    to shield desert-like wind
Created on Wed Feb 17 16:07:28 EST 2021 (updated Wed Feb 24 09:09:55 EST 2021)

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