Unit 3: Vocabulary from Readings

This list covers "BEWARE: Do Not Read This Poem," "Cold as Heaven," "Gentle Communion," "Local Sensibilities," "The Bells," "Sympathy," "Caged Bird," and "The Song of Wandering Aengus."
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  1. swift
    moving very fast
    one day the villagers broke
    into her house, but she was too
    swift for them.
  2. tenant
    any occupant who dwells in a place
    each tenant who bought the house
    after that lost a loved one to
    the ol woman in the mirror
  3. legendary
    so celebrated as to having taken on the nature of a myth
    the hunger of this poem is legendary
  4. teeming
    abundantly filled with especially living things
    Her eyes wander to the window,
    to the teeming scene of children
    pouring out of a yellow bus
  5. luminous
    softly bright or radiant
    She removes the thin skin, places
    the luminous coolness on my tongue.
  6. exotic
    characteristic of another place or part of the world
    When I see a pineapple,
    I do not think of an exotic fruit sliced in rings
    to be served with ham,
    more the summer jobs at the cannery
    driving a forklift or packing wedges on the line.
  7. verdant
    characterized by abundance of vegetation and green foliage
    When I think of Hawaii,
    I do not fancy myself lolling under palm trees,
    a backdrop of verdant cliffs, caressed by a balmy breeze
  8. caress
    touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner
    When I think of Hawaii,
    I do not fancy myself lolling under palm trees,
    a backdrop of verdant cliffs, caressed by a balmy breeze
  9. unique
    radically distinctive and without equal
    instead I give thanks for classmates and our family graves,
    this unique universe that we have called our home.
  10. balmy
    mild and pleasant
    Through the balmy air of night
    How they ring out their delight!
  11. voluminous
    large in number or quantity
    Oh, from out the sounding cells
    What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
  12. clamor
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
    Bells, bells, bells—
    In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!
  13. melancholy
    grave or even gloomy in character
    In the silence of the night,
    How we shiver with affright
    At the melancholy menace of their tone!
  14. knell
    ring as in announcing death
    Keeping time, time, time,
    As he knells, knells, knells
  15. keen
    intense or sharp
    And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
    And they pulse again with a keener sting
  16. seldom
    not often
    But a bird that stalks
    down his narrow cage
    can seldom see through
    his bars of rage
  17. trill
    a note that alternates with another note a semitone above it
    The caged bird sings
    with a fearful trill
  18. dappled
    having spots or patches of color
    And walk among long dappled grass,
    And pluck till time and times are done
    The silver apples of the moon,
    The golden apples of the sun.
Created on Mon Feb 22 15:33:55 EST 2021 (updated Wed Mar 03 15:33:54 EST 2021)

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