Galvanized: to stimulate or excite as if by electric shock (verb)
When reading “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston, I came across the word galvanized, and I have never seen this word before in my life, so out of my curiosity I decided to look further into what galvanized could mean. But before I did that, I guessed that it had something to do with an object being new. The reason why I thought so was because, Zora Hurston uses this word by stating ” and returned with a galvanized tub and set it on the washbench” so I believed that Delia (one of the main characters in the story) came with a new tub and set it on the washbench. However when I searched up galvanized, it actually meant to stimulate or excite. So I put two and two together, Delia came with a stimulate tub which made much more sense in the sentence. Now I know how to use this word in the future.
Nayideh Rene
