Collection 3: "Mississippi Solo" by Eddy Harris

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  1. monotony
    the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety
    Too many good days, too many bad days—you need some break in the monotony of one to appreciate the other.
  2. idle
    silly or trivial
    The idle chatter you get when you walk with your favorite niece or nephew going no place in particular with nothing special on your minds and the little kid just jabbers away because it’s comfortable and he feels like it.
  3. jabber
    talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
    The idle chatter you get when you walk with your favorite niece or nephew going no place in particular with nothing special on your minds and the little kid just jabbers away because it’s comfortable and he feels like it.
  4. avalanche
    a slide of large masses of snow, ice and mud down a mountain
    I could see the rainstorm forming off in the distance but swirling rapidly toward me like a dark gray avalanche.
  5. dale
    an open valley in a hilly area
    I felt the river dip down and up—a shallow dale in the water.
  6. insulate
    surround with material to protect from heat, cold, or noise
    My first thought was to shed a shirt and stay cool, but when I passed through the far curtain of the insulated air, I knew I had better do just the opposite.
  7. don
    put on clothes
    I drifted and donned my yellow rain suit and hood.
  8. splinter
    divide or break into slivers or fragments
    No sooner had I ducked into the trees than the sky split open with a loud crash and a splintery crackle of lightning.
  9. intuition
    instinctive knowing, without the use of rational processes
    I was more amazed than anything, trying to analyze the voice I had heard or whatever instinct or intuition it was that urged me to park in these trees.
  10. ethereal
    characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
    It had been something so very definite that I could feel it and yet so ethereal that I could not put my finger on it.
Created on Tue Jun 09 11:25:23 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Jun 11 11:16:34 EDT 2020)

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