noun
1. a large imposing building.
2. A complex system of beliefs.
Source: dictionary.com
This word is found in chapter 9 of “Quicksand.”
Word was used when Helga was relaying Anne’s remark about the drains she was thinking there were other parts of the building to consider .
Noun
enthusiasm or passion
source: dictionary.com
This word is found in chapter 9 of “Quicksand.”
The narrartor used this word in the context to express Anne’s racial enthusiasm and how Helga was initially entertained by it until she grew tired as “these things now irked her with a great irksomeness.”
Adverb
Eerily – so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine
sources : https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eerily
I have encountered this word while reading “Quicksand” by Nella Larsen. You can locate this word on page one, at the bottom of the page. When the narrator said “So large that the spot where Helga sat was a small oasis in a dessert of darkness. And Eerily quiet.” The word was interesting because it was used in such a short sentences to describe what the atmosphere was like when reading it. After understanding what this word means I think that the narrator was describing where Helga was sitting, and what it felted like, as the “shadowy”, and a large spot of lights, making the atmosphere very mysterious, and gloomy. Its atmosphere was very strange and frightening, also another word that would describe it would be emptiness.
Morsel – a small piece of food
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morsel
I have encounter this word, while reading the “Hunger Artist” on page 1, on the second paragraph, it said “This was nothing but a formality, instituted to reassure the masses, for the initiates knew well enough that during his fast the artist would never in any circumstances, not even under forcible compulsion, swallow the smallest morsel of food; the honor of his profession forbade it. Not every watcher, of course, was capable of understanding this, there were often groups of night watchers who were very lax in carrying out their duties and deliberately hudled together in a retired corner to play cards with great absorption, obviously intending to give the hunger artist the chance of a little refreshment, which they supposed he could draw from some private hoard.” After understanding the definition of this word, it means to eat a small quantity of food.
In this picture she eating a small amount of food.
Vigil (noun) – an event or a period of time when a person or group stays in a place and quietly waits, prays, etc., especially at night.
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vigil
From “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka
“Sometimes there were nightly groups of watchers who carried out their vigil very laxly, deliberately sitting together in a distant corner and putting all their attention into playing cards there, clearly intending to allow the hunger artist a small refreshment, which, according to their way of thinking, he could get from some secret supplies.”
Vigil is used here to describe the nightly activities of the watchers. This shows that these groups of people go out at night and watch the hunger artist, even though they don’t understand the art.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neurasthenia
I have encountered this word while reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper” (1913). This word was located on the first page second to last paragraph. “But the best result is this. Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.” To my understanding of the word it is a syndrome that is develop naturally, and it causes stress, depression, and even hallucinations. Which is similar to what the narrator from “The Yellow Wallpaper” has throughout the story. The narrator claim that her sickness was cause of nervous depression, which is similar to what neurasthenia is.
This picture show what a person with neurasthenia might be imagining of in their head.
Errand (archaic)
Errand – an oral message entrusted to a person
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/errand
I have encountered this word from the reading “A Rose For Emily”. The word was located at I page 1/6, last paragraph, and it quoted,”Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.” After understanding the meaning of this word I can say that it means while the narrator was describing Emily dead corpse the people say their prayer towards Emily. Some what like a goodbye message.
Procession
noun
Definition: continuous forward movement
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/procession
I found this word in “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin. It is located on the second page second paragraph in the third sentence. “But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would come that would belong to her absolutely.”
It makes more sense now that I know the definition and the way that the author means that Mrs.Mallard would be thinking about the way that she can move forward now that she only had herself to worry about.
niche (noun) -a recess in a wall especially for a statue. like a hidden private area.
i found this definition on https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niche
i found this word in passage “A Rose for Emily”
by William Faulkner.
“she had evidently shut up the top floor of the
house–like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking
at us, we could never tell which.”
Niche is overall a shadow or indent in a wall that is able to hold something. usually used for flowers, picture frames, statues and more.
Now knowing the the definition i can better understand what they are trying to say. usually what ever is in a niche is trying be focused on and thats where all the attention is. 
Inextricable (adjective)
Inextricable – forming a maze or tangle from which it is impossible to get free.
sources: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inextricable
I have encountered this word while reading the story of “A Rose For Emily”. It is located on section five, on the the last page, third paragraph, also on page 6/6. This word was in a sentences “What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patent and biding dust.” Now that I have understand the meaning of this word, inextricable means that you can’t escape from something. Just like it was said in the story “had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay;” is telling us that he can not be separated, or escape from where he is. Which can also be trying to say that he can not escape his death.
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