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barrack
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an improvised hut a building or group of buildings from housing soldiers
A gray, decaying, too small barrack meant to house the itinerant tenant workers on a prosperous white man's farm. |
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cauldron
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a large kettle or boiler
For the blue bowl especially was a cauldron of memories. |
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divestiture
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to disencumber or rid of something unwanted
Her move into the projects-the best house poor black people in the south ever had, she would occasionally declare, even as my father struggle to adjust to the cramped rooms and hard, unforgiving qualities of brick-was, I now understand, a step in the direction of divestiture, lightening her load, permitting her worldly possessions to dwindle in significance and, well before she herself would turn to spirit, roll away from her. |
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flourished
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to grow vigorously;succeed;thrive; prosper
There her gardens flourished in spite of the shade, as did her youngest daughter, for whom she sacrificed her life doing hard labor in someone else's house, in order to afford peace and prettiness for her child, to whose grateful embrace she returned each night. |
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frigidity
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extremely cold; without heat or warmth
during the cold weather can people are leaving frigidity outside. |
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itinerant
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travels from place to place
a gray, decaying, too small barrack meant to house the itinerant tenant workers on a prosperous white man's farm |
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marveled
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wonderful things
each time I visited her I marveled at the modesty of her desires. |
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musings
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reflection
those days when to visit her was to be drawn into a serene cocoon of memories and present-day musings and to rest there, in temporary retreat from the rest of the world, as if still an infant, nodding and secure at her breast. |
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rapaciously
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greedy or grasping; voracious
The blue bowl stood there, seemingly full forever, no matter how deeply or rapaciously we dipped, as if it had no bottom. |
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serene
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not disturbed or trouble; calm, peaceful, tranquil, ect.
those days when to visit her was to be drawn into a serene cocoon of memories and present-day musings and to rest there, in temporary retreat from the rest of the world, as if still an infant, nodding and secure at her breast. |
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solace
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an easing of grief, loneliness, discomfort,ect
I took solace in the fact that it was at least hugged by spacious lawn on one side, and by forest, out the back door, and that it's isolated position at the end of the street meant she would have a measure of privacy. |