Adjective

1. (of a speech sound) sounded with a hissing effect, for example, s, sh.

“THE NEGRO met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared.” (Faulkner, Ch5, paragraph1, PDF) – A Rose For Emily

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Noun

1. The inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.

“At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, ‘Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.’ But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige– –

without calling it noblesse oblige.” (Faulkner, Ch3, paragraph3, PDF)

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Teem- Verb

1. Be full of or swarming with.

“It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.” (Faulkner,CH 2, paragraph 3, PDF) – A rose for emily

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Noun

1. The art of producing decorative handwriting or lettering with a pen or brush.

“A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all.” (Faulkner, 4th paragraph, PDF) – A Rose For Emily

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Noun

1. A piece of fabric worn by women over the shoulders or head or wrapped around a baby.

” ‘I figured how,’ said Amy and so she had. She tore two pieces from Sethe’s shawl, filled them with leaves and tied them over her feet, chattering all the while.” (morrison, pg 49, PDF) – Beloved

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Verb

1. Move in an energetic or noisy matter.

Noun

1. Excited activity and movement.

” ‘A bunch at the back. On the sit-down part.’ ‘A bustle? It had a bustle?’ ” – (Morrison, pg21, PDF) – Beloved

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Noun

1. A woman’s light, loose undergarment hanging from the shoulders or the waist, worn under a skirt or dress.

“Nor herself time to take off her petticoat, and considering she had begun undressing before she saw him on the porch, that her shoes and stockings were already in her hand and she had never put them back on; that he had looked at her wet bare feet and asked to join her; that when she rose to cook he had undressed her further; considering how quickly they had started getting naked, you’d think by now they would be. But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. ” (Morrison, pg 13, PDF) – Beloved

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Noun

1. Someone or something that is very strongly disliked.

“He shrank from the venerable saint, as if to avoid an anathema.” (Hawthorne, 70, PDF) – Young Goodman Brown

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