1. Mute: (adjective) Refraining From Speech Or Temporarily Speechless. Then

1. Mute: (ADJECTIVE) Refraining from speech or temporarily speechless. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute. (PAGE 40) Because the girl was mute, she learned sign language. 2. Gravely: (ADVERB) a serious or solemn manner. Msimangu said gravely, yes, she is very sick.(PAGE 53) Gravely she told him the bad news. 3. Articulately: (ADVERB) having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently. Inarticulately he strokes her face, his heart filled with pity (page 61) I articulately said my line on the stage. 4. Reconciled: (VERB) restore friendly relationships between. And thus reconciled, they sat hand in hand. (PAGE 61) After reconciling, the friends left together. 5. Stipend: (NOUN) A fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance. To save ten pounds from the stipend of eight pounds a month takes much patience and time, especially for a parson, who must dress in good black clothes. (Page 64) After three years of having a stipend salary, I got my deserved raise 6. Irresolute: (ADJECTIVE) Showing or feeling hesitancy so getting no peace, she rose irresolute, and went to a room behind, and after some time she returned with the Bible. Irresolutely he went to the principal’s office. 7. Corrugated: (ADJECTIVE) Shaped into alternate ridges or grooves There is corrugated iron at the Reformatory, they use it to cover the bricks.(Page 88) The bricks on the house were corrugated into place 8. Travail: (NOUN) a painful or laborious effort. God save this piece of Africa that is my own, delivered in travail from my body, fed from my breast, loved by my heart, because that is the nature of women.(PAGE 89-90) Plowing is travail. 9. Obscure: (ADJECTIVE) not discovered or known about He had brought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing. (Page 93) I ran to the hiding spot very obscure. 10. Desolate: (ADJECTIVE) deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness. The great red hills stand desolate and the earth and the earth has torn away like flesh.(PAGE 34)

The desolate city was very quiet. 11. Muse: (VERB) absorbed in thought. His voice would falter and die away, and he would fall silent and muse.(Page 93) I stared blankly in a muse. 12. Dubious: (ADJECTIVE) hesitating or doubting. 13. Tenaciously: (ADJECTIVE) not readily letting go of. 14. Ruefully: (ADJECTIVE) expressing sorrow or regret. 15. Apprehension: (NOUN) anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen. 16. Prodigal: (ADJECTIVE) spending money and resources freely and recklessly. 17. Reproachfully: (ADJECTIVE) expressing disapproval or disappointment 18. Congenial: (ADJECTIVE) pleasant because of a personality, qualities or interests that are similar to ones own 19. Innumerable: (ADJECTIVE) too many to be counted 20. Quaintness: (ADJECTIVE) attractively unusual or old fashioned 21. Repression: (VERB) subdue by force 22. Reverie: (NOUN) a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts 23. Expedient: (ADJECTIVE) convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral. 24. Prestige: (NOUN) widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or something on the basis of a perception of their achievements or quality. 25. Scrupulous: (ADJECTIVE) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to detail. 26. Renounce: (VERB) formally declare ones abandonment of. 27. Profoundly: (ADJECTIVE) very great or intense 28. Humility: (NOUN) a modest or low view of one’s own importance 29. Transmuted: (VERB) change in form, nature or substance. Chris Van Egmond!!!!!!