Veiled (adjective): able to be seen or understood but not openly shown or stated : expressed in a way that is not clear and direct.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veiled

I encountered this word while reading “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. “It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed.” This means that Josephine did not come straight out and tell Mrs. Mallard about her husband’s death but gave hints here and there to help her derive to that conclusion.

Smock:
Defenition from Websters Dictionary:

This Cinderella story is very similar to the story i grew up reading. The princess Cinderella is treated badly by her step mother because she was more beautiful than her daughters. Cinderella doesn’t want to trouble her father because shes afraid her father would scolded her, so she keeps the fact that her step mother and step sisters treat her unfairly to herself. Despite them treating her poorly she’s still kind to them. Later on she gets the prince that every other girl in the kingdom wants. This story is practically identical besides a few difference. In the story, they explained that she got her name Cinderella  from cleaning the chimney, they originally called her Cinder-wench but one of the sisters called her Cinderella instead because they felt sorry for her and that name stuck eventually. In the story i know with, her name was ella and one of the sisters called her Cinderella because she had cinder all over her face and clothes from making a fire in the fire pit. Another difference was that there was only one ball in the original story, but in this version she attended two balls but at the second one is where she lost her slipper. The last difference was that Cinderella found husbands for her step sisters once she was married to her prince. The story itself doesn’t say much about Frances culture  expect for when the too step sisters were preparing for the ball and one of the sisters said she would wear a red velvet suit with french trimming but besides that to me the story doesn’t reflect much on Frances culture.

Devout (adjective) – earnest or sincere

Source: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/devout

I came across this word while reading “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton

“Once the wife of a rich man was on her deathbed and she said to her daughter Cinderella: Be devout. Be good.”

The word in this sentence is most likely the dying wife telling Cinderella to be sincere and to be a good person. This makes more sense because I did not understand what exactly the dying wife was trying to tell Cinderella other than to be good but I can see the similarity when she says be good and be sincere.

Definition(noun): a gust of wind, brief light of snowfall, a short period of things happening at once.

Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flurry

In the short story “Bia Lowe: I Always Write About My Mother When I Start To Write.” The word flurry was used in the third paragraph and it said. “But at that moment, as I watched her reel in a flurry of smells and powders, I must have felt myself to be quite separate from her.” When I first read this sentence I didn’t think too much of the word because I felt it wasn’t important to understanding the sentence. Now that I actually look up the word I feel that it gives the reader of more vivid picture of what is going on. As I understand it is she/he, the main character saw and smelled her/his mom put on the makeup and perfume and it happen to come together around her mom to make a beautiful sight. To better explain it is a picture bellow.

Pretend that the snow around is the powder and smell, if it had a physical form and the baseball player is the mom.

Puritanical(adverb)- of, relating to, or characterized by a rigid morality.

Source-https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/puritanical

I found the word puritanical while reading the story There Was Once by Margaret Atwood. The word is on page 70 in the third paragraph. I’ve never really heard the word before and I was curious to know the definition.

“There was once a girl of indeterminate descent, as average looking as she was good ,who lived with her wicked-”

“Another thing. Good and wicked. Don’t you think you should transcend those puritanical judgmental moralistic epithets? I mean, so much of that is conditioning, isn’t it?”

Now looking back at that part of the reading knowing what the word means I understand what the writer was trying to go for. The word puritanical is basically another word for strict religion and strong faith. The author was trying to show that it shouldn’t be good vs wicked because that’s seen in most typical pieces of literature and the good ones always have a strong connection to moral behavior.