a loud continuous noise (such as the noise made when many people are talking or shouting
Noun
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clamor
“But now Magda’s mouth was spilling a long vicious rope of clamor, “Maaaaaaa-” pg2300
(This connects to perilous) I understood that Magda felt very disoriented and upset when she lost her shawl so she started to finally scream.
dead and putrefying flesh(unfit for food)
noun
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carrion
“Magda was dumb. Even the laugh that came when the ash-stippled wind made a clown out of Magda’s shawl was the only air-blown showing of her teeth. Even when the lice, head lice and body lice, crazed her so that she became as wild as one of the big rats that plundered the barracks at daybreak looking for carrion, she rubbed and scratched and kicked and bit and rolled without a whimper.” pg2300
I understand that Magda sort of lost all her human like qualities.
housing characterized by extreme plainness or dreary uniformity; a building or set of buildings used especially for lodging soldiers in garrison
noun
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/barrack
“Magda was mute. She never cried. Rosa hid her in the barracks, under the shawl but she knew one day someone would inform; or one day someone, not even stella would steal Magda to eat her.” pg2300
I understand that Rosa was afraid someone would find Magda in the barracks and snitch on her or use her as food.
very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification; very hungry
adjective
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ravenous
“Stella was ravenous. Her knees were tumors on sticks, her elbows chicken bones.
Stella was famished.” pg 2299 first paragraph
I understood that Stella looked like a wild creature compared to her mom and her sister.
noun
“a dead body, especially a human body to be dissected; corpse.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cadaver?s=t
“This one’s cadaver, this one unconscious, this one beaten blue. Her ex-husband, her husband, her lover, her father, her brother, her uncle, her friend, her coworker. Always. The same grisly news in the pages of the dailies. She dunked her glass under the soap water for a moment- shivered.” Pg 1405
I understood from this passage on how women were always victimized and hurt by men physically because men use their strength to hurt them.
a former gold coin of Spain and Spanish America, originally equal to two escudos but fluctuating in value.
noun
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doubloon?s=t
“The men at the ice house. From she can tell from the times during her first year when still newly wed, she is invited and accompanies her husband sits mute beside their conversation waits and sips her beer until it grows warm, twists a paper napkin into a knot and another into a fan, one into a rose, nods her head, smiles, yawns, politely grins, laughs at the appropriate moments, leans against her husbands sleeves, tugs at his elbows and finally becomes good at predicting where the talk will leads, from this Cleofilas concludes each is nightly trying to find the truth lying at the bottom of the bottle like a gold doubloon on the floor sea” pg1403
Now that I understand the meaning behind Doubloon, I understand everyone is very eager for their drinks and good times like they would be eager to find treasure in the ocean. That they find their purpose in life, in their drinks.
a garden plant, Celosia cristata, of the amaranth family, with flowers, commonly crimson or purple, in a broad spike somewhat resembling the comb of a cock.
noun
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cockscombs?s=t
“The neighbor lady Dolores divided her time between the memory of these men and her garden, famous for it’s sunflowers, so tall they had to be supported by broom handles and old boards; red red cockscombs, fringed and bleeding a thick menstrual color; and especially roses whose sad scent reminded Cleofilas of the dead.” pg 1402
I understand that in this passage I understand that the neighbor, Dolores really tends to her garden with lots of care.
1) Aquiver
2) Puritanical
4) Cultivating
5) Eccentric
6) Seldom
7) Untenanted
8) Congenial
9) Temperament
10) Mutilated
11) Pitiful
12) Coherent
13) Inevitable
14) Enlightenment
15) Analogical
I thought that the glossary entry’s can definitely help someone if they study and memorize the word. If you just write the glossary entry to write it then nothing is going to happen for you. You will not really gain anything from it. Overall, it was a bit annoying to write, but it is helpful if you actually remember the words and use them in the future.
Analogical:( Adjective)
Definition:logic, maths a form of reasoning in which a similarity between two or more things is inferred from a known similarity between them in other respects
Dictionary.com
Oh, we Smiths are ardent seekers after the spirit of Christmas, and we do not listen to Iris Murdoch’s sensible analogical advice: ”Good represents the reality of which God is the dream.” We’re chasing the dream, baby.
This just means that they didn’t want to follow their advice, which was in the form of reasoning.
enlightenment: Noun
Definition:the state of being enlightened.
Dictionary.com
Outsiders do best if they seeketh neither enlightenment nor the remote control.
This just means that they weren’t looking for neither of these two things.
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