Cry, The Beloved Country Vocabulary Activity 1. Mute: Refraining From

Cry, the Beloved Country Vocabulary Activity 1. Mute: refraining from speech or temporarily speechless. 2. Gravely: giving cause for alarm. 3. Articulately: having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently. 4. Reconciled: friendly relations between. 5. Stipend: a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance. 6. Irresolute: showing or feeling hesitancy. 7. Corrugated: shaped into alternate ridges and grooves. 8. Travail: painful or laborious effort. 9. Obscure: not discovered or known about. 10.Desolate: deserted of people and in a state or bleak and dismal emptiness. 11. Muse: be absorbed in thought. 12. Dubious: hesitating or doubting. 13. Tenaciously: not readily giving up from something. 14. Ruefully: expressing sorrow or regret. 15. Apprehension: anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen. 16. Prodigal: spending money or freely and recklessly. 17. Reproachfully: expressing disapproval or disappointment. 18. Congenial: pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or interests that are similar to one’s own. 19. Innumerable: too many to be counted. 20. Quaintness: attractively unusual or old-fashioned. 21. Repression: subdue. 22. Reverie: a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts or daydream. 23. Expedient: convenient and practical, although possibly improper or moral. 24. Prestige: widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or something on the basis of a perception of their achievements or quality. 25. Scrupulous: diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details. 26. Renounce: formally declare one’s abandonment of. 27. Profoundly: very great or intense. 28. Humility: a modest or low view of one’s own importance. 29. Transmuted: change in form, nature, or substance.