Vocabulary Book 2 and 3
Veld: the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
Quays: a landing place, especially one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf.
Idly: not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
Orators: a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
Negrophile: a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
Cogently: convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling.
Contradictory: asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
Concurred: to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
Fitly: in a proper or suitable manner.
Vestments: a garment, especially an outer garment.
Convulsed: to shake violently; agitate.
Haunches: the fleshy part of the body about the hip.
Warder: a person who guards something, as a doorkeeper or caretaker.
Forswear: to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
Aspiration: strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
Desolation: the act of barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
Beseech: to beg eagerly for; solicit.
Prostrates: to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
Bereaved: (of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one.
Bondage: slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.
Veld: the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa.
Quays: a landing place, especially one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf.
Idly: not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
Orators: a person who delivers an oration; a public speaker, especially one of great eloquence: Demosthenes was one of the great orators of ancient Greece.
Negrophile: a white or other nonblack person who is especially sympathetic to or supportive of black people.
Cogently: convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling.
Contradictory: asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements.
Concurred: to accord in opinion; agree: Do you concur with his statement?
Fitly: in a proper or suitable manner.
Vestments: a garment, especially an outer garment.
Convulsed: to shake violently; agitate.
Haunches: the fleshy part of the body about the hip.
Warder: a person who guards something, as a doorkeeper or caretaker.
Forswear: to reject or renounce under oath: to forswear an injurious habit.
Aspiration: strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.
Desolation: the act of barren or laid waste; devastated: a treeless, desolate landscape.
Beseech: to beg eagerly for; solicit.
Prostrates: to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration.
Bereaved: (of a person) greatly saddened at being deprived by death of a loved one.
Bondage: slavery or involuntary servitude; serfdom.