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Literature (Subject) / Alice Walker (Lesson)
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- in lieu of = instead of
- shrines =place where people come to worship, often connected to a holy person
- to thwart = prevent sb. doing smth.
- malnutrition = lack of vitamins
- profusely = in large amounts
- to stifle = can't get enough air
- mule = horse and donkey crossed
- anonymously = author for example is unknown
- spirituality = being connected with a higher power in instance with god
- spirit mind, feelings, character, attitude of a person
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- numb = unable to feel anything in a particular part of your body especially as a result of cold or anesthesia
- to muzzle = to cover the nose and mouth of a dog in instance, or prevent sb. expressing opinion
- to mutilate =inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on, to demage sb's body very severly
- to perish = to die in a violent way
- backdrop = background, a painted cloth hung at the back of a theatre stage as part of the scenery
- lunatics = people, who are crazy in a bad way
- depraved = morally bad
- slave = a person who is owned from another person
- inglorious = causing feeling of shame
- crooning lullabies = "singing" a song to make a child go to sleep, in a way that you can barely hear it
- to hinder to prevent sb doing sth
- in hindsight = looking in the past to smth that have already happened and would do it differently afterwards
- pitiful = to feel sorry with sb./sth.
- agony = highest level of pain
- to neglect sth/sb = to fail to take care of sth/sb
- fidelity = faithfulness, being loyal to someone especially in a marriage
- savagery = behavior that is very cruel and violent
- zinnias = kind of flower
- bulbs = onion shape, The round underground part of some plant
- work-worn = destroyed/influenced badly from working to hard
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- counterpart = a person or thing that has the same position or function as somebody/something else in a different place or situation, one of two parts that complement or correspond to each other (=pendant)
- quilt A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber, used as a blanket
- inquiry = an official process to find out the cause of something or to find out information about somethinga request for information about somebody/something; a question about somebody/something
- = quiver = to shake slightly
- dissipated =enjoying activities that are harmful such as drinking too much alcoho
- strenuous =needing great effort and energy, exhausting activty
- tramp = an offensive word for somebody, usually a woman, who is thought to have many sexual partners
- ingenious =(of a person) having a lot of clever new ideas and good at inventing things