Zora Neale Hurston, “Sweat”
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The new word I would add to my glossary is suppression. The word suppression means the action of suppressing something such as an activity or publication. In the story, the sentence that uses the word suppression says “fifteen years of misery and suppression had brought Delia to the place where she would hope anything that looked towards a way over or through her wall of inhibitions.” At first my reaction to this word was that it meant that she lived through so much misery with her husband after so much years, that she would feel as she would not see the light down the to tunnel. But once I looked for the definition it actually means that is an action in which suppress to something as an activity.
