Sula Vocab 2

1. solicitous- (n.) meticulously careful. "Kept them solicitous of white people's children" (160). Since I had a cold, I was very solicitous of the people I came in contact with.






2. malevolence- (n.) malevolent behavior; ill will; malice; hatred. "The slurred remarks and the staggering childish malevolence of their employees" (161). After 9/11, Americans had an extreme malevolence for the Islamic people.






3. fastidious- (adj.) showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care. "She had neither iron nor clothes but did not stop her fastidious lining up of pleats or pressing out of wrinkles even when she acknowledged Nel's greeting" (167). I had a fastidious upkeep for my rare quarters








4. dirge- (n). a song or hymn of grief or lamentation. "And so did Shadrack with his rope, his bell and his childish dirge"(155). During slavery, many black slaves would sing dirges in order to converse subliminal messages.













5. unassailable- (adj). not assailable: not liable to doubt, attack, or question. "The sealed window soothed her with its sturdy termination, its unassailable finality" (148). An unassailable lawyer will always have and conduct meticulous notes.










6. timbre- (n.) the distinctive tone quality differentiating one vowel or sonant from another. "It gave her voice the timbre she wanted it to have" (139). Since moving up north, my accent was able to have more timbre than when I lived in Atlanta.











7. ornate- (adj.) elaborately or excessively decorated. "An absence so decorative, so ornate, it was difficult for her to understand how she had ever endured" (134). Since my renovation, my house looks so ornate.








8. mercurial- (adj.) characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood. "She admires him, as though his mercurial nature" (12). My bipolar disorder caused me to have mercurial behavior.












9. trepidation- (n.) a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation. "Willy outside the bedroom, calls with some trepidation" (12). After escaping the grasp of Michael Myers' hands, my body shivered with such trepidation that I couldn't even hold anything in my hands.












10. imbue- (v.) to instill or inspire (with ideals, principles, etc.). "That's just the spirit I want to imbue them with!" (52). Dr. King's speech imbue in me the skills of resilience and nonviolence.