Cry, the Beloved Country Vocabulary Activity

1. Mute: refraining from speech or temporarily speechless.

2. Gravely: giving cause for alarm.
3. Articulately: having or showing the ability to speak fluently and
coherently.
4. Reconciled: friendly relations between.
5. Stipend: a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance.
6. Irresolute: showing or feeling hesitancy.
7. Corrugated: shaped into alternate ridges and grooves.
8. Travail: painful or laborious effort.
9. Obscure: not discovered or known about.
10.Desolate: deserted of people and in a state or bleak and dismal
emptiness.
11. Muse: be absorbed in thought.
12. Dubious: hesitating or doubting.
13. Tenaciously: not readily giving up from something.
14. Ruefully: expressing sorrow or regret.
15. Apprehension: anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant
will happen.
16. Prodigal: spending money or freely and recklessly.
17. Reproachfully: expressing disapproval or disappointment.
18. Congenial: pleasant because of a personality, qualities, or
interests that are similar to one’s own.
19. Innumerable: too many to be counted.
20. Quaintness: attractively unusual or old-fashioned.
21. Repression: subdue.
22. Reverie: a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts or
daydream.
23. Expedient: convenient and practical, although possibly improper
or moral.
24. Prestige: widespread respect and admiration felt for someone or
something on the basis of a perception of their achievements or
quality.
25. Scrupulous: diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to
details.
26. Renounce: formally declare one’s abandonment of.
27. Profoundly: very great or intense.
28. Humility: a modest or low view of one’s own importance.
29. Transmuted: change in form, nature, or substance.