Riotus (The Yellow Wallpaper/Page 60/Paragraph 4)
adjective
Pronunciation: Rye-Eh-Tus
-Of a group of people: behaving in a violent and uncontrolled way.
-Marked by or involving public disorder.
-Having a vivid, varied appearance.
Context: “Out of one window I can see the garden, those mysterious deepshaded arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.
Source(s): -http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/riotous
-https://www.google.com/#q=riotous+definition
Durst is a verb.
According to Merriam Webster dictionary durst means: Archaic and dialect past of dare.
In other words, durst is an old fashion way of saying dare. It is also a way certain groups of people spoke depending on the social group they belonged to.
The word durst is used by Nathaniel Hawthorne on page six of the class handout entitled, “Young Goodman Brown.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, “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 a shadow.”
Goodman Brown was making his best effort to avoid being detected in the bushes by anyone passing. At the same time he wanted to see who was passing. He extended his head from the bushes as far as he thought would be appropriate for him to identify who is passing without them in turn seeing him.
Remitted (verb): to send (money) as a payment: to cancel or free someone from (a punishment, debt, etc.) (Merriam-Webster)
Found on Page I, Paragraph 3 of “A Rose for Emily”–>“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor–he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron-remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity.”
I believe the word in this quote means that Colonel Sartoris canceled Miss Emily’s tax payments because her father, including the entire Grierson family, was once seen as prestigious aristocrat family.
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