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Glossary, Week 3

Verily

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Verily – certainly or truly.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verily

Used in “Young Goodman Brown”, third page, fourth paragraph [19].  Used as a verb to describe a certainty of how Goodman’s family never would have been into any evil practices.

Or, verily, I marvel not seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England.

Goodman was describing how his family would  have been shocked, and ashamed at the mere rumor that their family would have been involved in any sort of wickedness.

 

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Boughs

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Boughs – a branch of a tree, especially one of the larger or main branches.

Found in Young Goodman Brown By Nathaniel Hawthorne paragraph 42

“On came the hoof-tramps and the voices of the riders, two grave old voices, conversing soberly as they drew near. These mingled sounds appeared to pass along the road, within a few yards of the young man’s hiding-place; but owing, doubtless, to the depth of the gloom, at that particular spot, neither the travellers nor their steeds were visible. Though their figures brushed the small boughs by the way-side, it could not be seen that they intercepted, even for a moment, the faint gleam from the strip of bright sky, athwart which they must have passed. Goodman Brown alternately crouched and stood on tip-toe, pulling aside the branches, and thrusting forth his head as far as he durst, without discerning so much as a shadow. It vexed him the more, because he could have sworn, were such a thing possible, that he recognized the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin, jogging along quietly, as they were wont to do, when bound to some ordination or ecclesiastical council. While yet within hearing, one of the riders stopped to pluck a switch.”

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Gallantry

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Gallantry noun \ˈga-lən-trē\

a :  an act of marked courtesy

b :  courteous attention to a lady

“And yet,” said he, with the gallantry of a young politician. “for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?”

A Jury of Her Peers page 265

Initially I was thinking of gallant where it it means brave. This made no sense to me “…a gallantry of a young politician…” Young politicians are rather foolish as opposed to brave. The other definition of gallantry made much more sense in this case.

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Importunities

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Importunities  noun \ˌim-pər-ˈtĂŒ-nə-tē, –ˈtyĂŒ-\

a: an importunate (troubesembly urgent/annoyance) request or demand

She arose at length and opened the door to her sister’s importunities.

The Story of An Hour paragraph 10

Importunities looks like the word important and although the of the words definition meant annoying urgency I thought it just meant her sisters urgency was important.

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Wares

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Wares  noun  \ˈwer\

a :  manufactured articles, products of art or craft, or farm produce :  goods —often used in combination <tinware

b :  an article of merchandise

In the street below a peddler was crying his wares.

The Story of An Hour paragraph 5

Thinking a peddler is a man peddling a boat him screaming his ‘wares’ to me meant that he was screaming at people to beware. Turns out a peddler is a merchant and he was letting people know what merchandise he has.

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Ocular

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Ocular (adjective) – perceived by the eye.

This was found in “Young Goodman Brown,” in paragraph 13. “This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assigned by the uncertain light.”

Knowing the definition of the word, I can understand that Goodman Brown believed, because of the light, his eyes perceived the old man’s staff as a living serpent.

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Pauper

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noun
1. a person without any means of support, especially a destitute person who depends on aid from public welfare funds or charity.
2. a very poor person.
 The vocabulary word was written in the story “A Rose for Emily” by Williams Faulkner.
When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized.
Miss Emily was a pauper after her father death, all she has left was the house, nothing else to her name. She didn’t have a job or anything, only minor things another person done for her such as picking up groceries.
Source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pauper?s=t
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vanquish

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In ” A Rose for Emily” part II, paragraph 1.

Vanquish

– to overcome in battle :  subdue completely
– to defeat in a conflict or contest
– to gain mastery over (an emotion, passion, or temptation) <vanquish your fear>

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanquish

Example:

They were vanquished in a battle.  Means they lost the battle.

In ” A Rose for Emily” part II, paragraph 1.

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Glossary, Week 1

Genial

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Genial adj –
1. of or relating to marriage
2. inborn, native
3.  favorable to growth

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genial
Paragraph 5 in A Jury of Her Peers.
“He was to a dot the kind of man who could get himself elected sheriff – a heavy man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding, as if to make it plain that he knew the difference between criminals and non-criminals.”

The law was sort of native to the sheriff. It can emphasized on hos he was a heavy man with a big voice and that he could get himself elected sheriff. It also says that he makes up for Mrs. Peter lack of resemblance as the sheriff’s wife by being extremely like a sheriff himself.

 

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