In your final post or comments for Native Son, you need to make sure to use a vocab word from the novel. Here are the words from the second half of the book. The vocab from the first half of the book (#s 1-6) can be located by clicking here.
7) Smolder – to burn slowly with smoke but no flame
“…the smoldering embers, he rose abruptly…” (p. 114)
8) Ebb – to flow backward or away
“…rising and sinking with the ebb and flow of her blood.” (p. 135)
9) Cordon – a ring of people (usually military or police) guarding an area
“Immediately a cordon of five thousand police…was thrown about the Black Belt.” (p. 243)
10) Incipient – beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage
“Incipient riot quelled at 47th & Halsted.” (p. 239)
11) Flaccid – hanging loose or wrinkled, not firm
“…his eyes like two still pools of black ink in his flaccid face.” (p. 255)
12) Mawkish – characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional
“I shall tell them that our courts, swamped with mawkish sentimentality, are no longer fit instruments to safeguard the public peace!” (p. 374)
13) Mitigate – to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate
“Further, I want to prevail upon this Court to consider this boy’s plea of guilty as evidence mitigating his punishment…” (p. 371)
14) Listlessly – having or showing little or no interest in anything;
“Listlessly, he talked. He traced his every action.” (p. 309)
15) Welter – a confused mass; a jumble or muddle
“…and the other vision pictured life, an image of himself standing amid throngs of men, lost in the welter of their lives with the hope of emerging again…” (p. 364)
