Collection 6: Poems About the Seasons

As you compare Elinor Wylie's "Wild Peaches" and William Carlos Williams' "Spring and All," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 12's Collection 6: Living Like Weasels, poems about the seasons, Dwellings, The Hermit's Story
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  1. emigrate
    leave one's country of residence for a new one
  2. lotus-eater
    someone indifferent to the busy world
  3. scuppernong
    amber-green muscadine grape of southeastern United States
  4. bloom
    a powdery deposit on a surface
  5. water moccasin
    venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States
  6. dwindle
    become smaller or lose substance
  7. shoal
    a stretch of shallow water
  8. cornucopia
    a horn filled with fruit and grain symbolizing prosperity
  9. canvasback
    North American wild duck valued for sport and food
  10. austere
    severely simple
  11. immaculate
    completely neat and clean
  12. spate
    a sudden forceful flow
  13. contagious
    (of disease) capable of being spread by infection
  14. sluggish
    moving slowly
  15. profound
    coming from deep within one
Created on Sat Jul 19 10:08:01 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:11:48 EDT 2014)

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