Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocabulary

  1. Chasten
    To scold or reprimand
  2. Commiserate
    To pity or show sympathy towards
  3. Compel
    To propel or inspire
  4. Conjecture
    A guess or inference
  5. Consolation
    Comfort or solace
  6. Coquetry
    Flirtation
  7. Discomfiture
    Embarrassment or awkwardness
  8. Dissolution
    Termination or ending
  9. Expound
    To explain
  10. Fractious
    Testy, fond of fighting
  11. Indiscriminate
    Random or arbitrary
  12. Languid
    Unhurried or relaxed
  13. Malice
    Hatred or Spite
  14. Metropolis
    City
  15. Mien
    Appearance or bearing
  16. Monstrous
    Hideous or grotesque
  17. Mulatto
    One of mixed black and white ancestry
  18. Orator
    Speaker
  19. Pulpit
    Podium or stand
  20. Refract
    To deflect from a straight line (light, for example)
  21. Relish
    To enjoy or delight in
  22. Scimitar
    A short, curved sword
  23. Temerity
    Nerve or audacity
  24. Varmint
    An obnoxious person, a "rascal"
  25. Wanton
    Reckless
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocabulary
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Vocabulary for the African American Unit in Ms. Kaustch's class
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