Author: Iqra

Torment is a noun. According to Merriam Webster, the definition of  torment is, “extreme pain or anguish of body or mind”. In “Sweat” by Zora Neal Hurston I found this word on the third page. This word was used to explain the torture or pain Delia is going through because of the snake that her husband brings in the house to scared her. She was abused before but now he’s using her fear to torture her.

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of sifted is, ” to go through very carefully in order to find something useful or valuable”. In the article, “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell I found this word on the first paragraph. Sifted is used by Martha when she was working in the kitchen. Like Delia she wants everything organized and perfect. She want her kitchen to be cleaned in every way.

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of “scornfully” is, ” Felling or showing disgust and anger” Scornfully is an adverb. This word was used in the article, “Sweat”  for Sykes the way he was showing his anger. Sykes always use harsh words and shows anger towards her wife Delia. He always talks to her in a rude way. In this scene, Sykes was talking to her when she came from church.

The definition of squatted, according to Merriam-Webster is, ” to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground”. Squatted is an “transitive Verb”. I found this word in the article, “Sweat” by Zora Neal Hurston on the second paragraph.In this scene, Delia was in kitchen when she used this word squatted. She is very organize so she tried her best to clean everything.

According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of bromance is ” a close nonexual friendship between men”. I found this word in the article, “Allowing Teenage Boys to Love Their Friends” by Jan Hoffman. In this article Hoffman man talk about the friendship with their friends. Boys only talk about their feelings with their friends. The word bromance was used to talk about the physical relationship between man.

Agitate is a verb and according to Merriam-Webster the definition is ” to move with an irregular, rapid, or violent action”. This word is used in the article, “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest” by Andrew Reiner when he talk about the gay in the clip and his father went for vacation. His father was motivating him by saying that “Be a man” and got aggressive because his son got agitated. To make him feel better he started motivating him.

The word languish is a verb and the according to Merriam-Webster the definition is ” to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated”. I fond this word in the article “The Boys at the Back” by Christina Hoff Sommers. In this article, she talked about inequality between genders. She used this word to explain that girls have someone’s back in time of struggle, depression, and in education. Their is always someone who support them when they got weak at certain point. We need to do the same thing for boys when they got languished like got weak at some point.

According to Merriam-webster, the definition of Crooning is “to sing or speak in a gentle murmuring way”. I found this word in the article, “Talking to boys the way we talk to girls” by Andrew Reiner. This word is used by a 5 year old boy who’s describing his father’s qualities in a crooning way. Andrew is telling us that his father when he’s with children he acts like a child and try not to show his be a man side.

The word Impugning is a “Transitive Verb”. The definition of Impugning according to Merriam-Webster is ” to assail by words or arguments oppose or attack as false or lacking integrity”. I found this word in the reading “The Boys are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black in this he talk about man’s emotions and masculinity. That they are not allowed to show their emotions to the world. For example, ” I see him, 16 years old, swallowing his frustration, burying his worry, stomping up the stairs without telling us what’s wrong, and I want to show him what it looks like to be vulnerable and open but I can’t. Because I was a boy once, too”. This show that man are promoting masculinity too because if they show emotion they have to face a lot hate towards their personality. The word Impugning tells us that if u show society your soft side they’ll attack u from their words.