Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 2

This list covers "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls," "A Psalm of Life," and Nature.
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  1. efface
    remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
    The little waves, with their soft, white hands,
    Efface the footprints in the sands,
    And the tide rises, the tide falls.
  2. sublime
    inspiring awe
    Lives of great men all remind us
    We can make our lives sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
    Footprints on the sands of time
  3. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
    Footprints, that perhaps another,
    Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
    A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
    Seeing, shall take heart again.
  4. exhilaration
    the feeling of lively and cheerful joy
    Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
  5. sanctity
    the quality of being holy
    Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.
  6. perennial
    recurring again and again
    Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.
  7. calamity
    an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.
  8. blithe
    carefree and happy and lighthearted
    Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes.
  9. temperance
    the trait of avoiding excesses
    It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance.
  10. contempt
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
    Then, there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend.
Created on Wed Mar 03 08:54:07 EST 2021 (updated Fri Mar 12 11:58:44 EST 2021)

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