Collection 3: Poems by Emily Dickinson

As you read Emily Dickinson's "The Soul selects her own Society," "Because I could not stop for Death," "Much Madness is divinest Sense," and "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 3: Song of Myself, Growing Up Asian in America, poems by Emily Dickinson, Walden, Against Nature, The Minister's Black Veil, The Pit and the Pendulum
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  1. divine
    emanating from God
  2. ample
    affording an abundant supply
  3. immortality
    the state of eternal life
  4. haste
    overly eager speed and possible carelessness
  5. gossamer
    a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture
  6. tippet
    a woman's fur shoulder cape with hanging ends
  7. tulle
    a fine fabric net used for veils, tutus, or gowns
  8. cornice
    a molding between the ceiling and the top of a wall
  9. surmise
    infer from incomplete evidence
  10. discerning
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  11. prevail
    prove superior
  12. assent
    agree or express agreement
  13. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  14. circuit
    a journey or route all the way around a place or area
  15. infirm
    lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
Created on Wed Jul 09 23:40:41 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:31:38 EDT 2014)

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