Imperceptibly
- Part of Speech: adverb
- Definition: very slightly, gradually
- Awakening Reference: "But the cavalry officer melted imperceptibly out of her existence" (Chopin 19).
- Personal Sentence: The frog can be boiled alive, as long as you raise the temperature imperceptibly slowly.
LANGUOROUS
- Part of Speech: adjective
- Definition: emotional softness or tenderness
- Awakening Reference: "The sun was low in the West, and the breze soft and languorous that came up from the South, charged with the seductive odor of the sea," (Chopin 14).
- Personal Sentence: The sunset made me feel languorous and soft.
Pirogue
- Part of Speech: noun
- Definition: a native boat
- Awakening Reference: "Then I'll take you some night in the pirogue when the moon shines" (Chopin 35).
- Personal Sentence: You can rent a pirogue from the boat shop along with kayaks, canoes, and jet skis.
festoon
- Part of Speech: noun
- Definition: A decorative string or chain of flowers, ribbon, leaves, etc. to drape or hang in graceful loops
- Awakening Reference: "The lamps were fixed at intervals against the wall, encircling the whole room. Some one had gathered orange and lemon branches, and with these fashioned graceful festoons between" (Chopin Chapter 9).
- Personal Sentence: The wedding was decorated with festoons hanging above the pavilion.
reverie
- Part of Speech: noun
- Definition: a daydream
- Awakening Reference: “She stayed alone in a kind of reverie” (Chopin 103).
- Personal Sentence: The AP Calc test went like a breeze, mostly due to my reverie and not my knowledge of Calculus.
CREUT
- Part of Speech: noun
- Definition: a glass bottle, especially used for holding vinegar and oil
- Awakening Reference: "Out!, exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice as he laid down his vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses" (Chopin 50).
- Personal Sentence: The creut was in the middle of the table at the fancy restaurant.
mulatresse
- Part of Speech: noun
- Definition: a person of caucasian and black decent
- Awakening Reference: “An old cat slept all day on the stone step in the sun, and an old mulatresse slept her idle hours away in her chair at the open window, till someone happened to knock on one of the green tables” (Chopin 105).
- Personal Sentence: Mulatresses were a controversial group of people during the Civil Rights movement, as they were mixed.
scintillant
- Part of Speech: adjective
- Definition: sparkling, bright
- Awakening Reference: "My! but he had had a time of it the evening before! He wouldn't want his mother to know, and he began to talk in a whisper. He was scintillant with recollections" (Chopin Chapter 20).
- Personal Sentence: The stars used to decorate the 'Out of This World'- themed dance were scintillant in the light.
consternation
- Part of Speech: noun
- Definition: confusion, dismay
- Awakening Reference: "Out!, exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice as he laid down his vinegar cruet and looked at her through his glasses" (Chopin 50).
- Personal Sentence:
desultory
- Part of Speech: adjective
- Definition: lacking a plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
- Awakening Reference: "In the lulls, Robert and his mother exchanged bits of desultory conversation" (Chopin Chapter 8).
- Personal Sentence: Our desultory DNA/ Genetics research project is going rather poorly due to lack of planning.