Winesburg, Ohio: Adventure

by Sherwood Anderson
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The Book of the Grotesque, Hands, Paper Pills, Mother, The Philosopher, Nobody Knows, Godliness, A Man of Ideas, Adventure, Respectability, The Thinker, Tandy, The Strength of God, The Teacher, Loneliness, An Awakening, "Queer," The Untold Lie, Drink, Death, Sophistication, Departure
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  1. slight
    being of delicate or slender build
    At twenty-seven Alice was tall and somewhat slight.
  2. placid
    not easily irritated
    She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.
  3. ferment
    a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
    She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.
  4. diffidence
    lack of self-assurance
    The outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away and she gave herself over to the emotions of love.
  5. reserve
    formality and propriety of manner
    The outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away and she gave herself over to the emotions of love.
  6. abandon
    a feeling of extreme emotional intensity
    Ned Currie was puzzled by the determination and abandon of his sweetheart and was also deeply touched.
  7. livery
    the care of horses for pay
    They walked about through the streets for an hour and then got a rig from Wesley Moyer's livery and went for a drive in the country.
  8. pension
    regular payment to allow a person to subsist without working
    The harness maker was an old soldier, and after a few months his wife received a widow's pension.
  9. induce
    cause to act in a specified manner
    For a number of years nothing could have induced her to believe that Ned Currie would not in the end return to her.
  10. cloister
    seclude from the world
    In the wooded places are many little cloistered nooks, quiet places where lovers go to sit on Sunday afternoons.
  11. ineffectual
    lacking in power or forcefulness
    Fear of age and ineffectuality took possession of her.
  12. perpetually
    everlastingly; for all time
    "I am becoming old and queer. If Ned comes he will not want me. In the city where he is living men are perpetually young. There is so much going on that they do not have time to grow old," she told herself with a grim little smile, and went resolutely about the business of becoming acquainted with people.
  13. resolutely
    showing firm determination or purpose
    "I am becoming old and queer. If Ned comes he will not want me. In the city where he is living men are perpetually young. There is so much going on that they do not have time to grow old," she told herself with a grim little smile, and went resolutely about the business of becoming acquainted with people.
  14. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
    Beside the drug clerk she walked in silence, but sometimes in the darkness as they went stolidly along she put out her hand and touched softly the folds of his coat.
  15. unaccustomed
    not habituated to; unfamiliar with
    "It is not him that I want," she told herself; "I want to avoid being so much alone. If I am not careful I will grow unaccustomed to being with people."
Created on Thu Feb 18 13:37:33 EST 2021 (updated Wed Feb 24 16:26:07 EST 2021)

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