Words for The Lexicon

Here are some words from Genesis so far that our group found challenging throughout our reading.

cockade-"The Reverend towered over the rickety altar, his fiery crew cut bristling like a woodpecker's cockade." (p69): an ornament (as a rosette) usually worn on a hat as a badge

Stipend-"Our Father is a renegade who came without the entire blessing for the Mission League, and bullied or finagled his way into this lesser stipend." (p69): a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses

Dirge- "We finished off Susanna by singing "Amazing Grace" at the speed of a dirge." (p72): a song or hymn of grief or lamentation; especially : one intended to accompany funeral or memorial rites

Socratic-"One of his socratic moves" (p73): of or relating to Socrates, his followers, or his philosophical method of systematic doubt and questioning of another to elicit a clear expression of a truth supposed to be implicitly known by all rational beings

Bovine- "...it was designed to show us all up as dull-witted, bovine females." (p73):having qualities (as placidity or dullness) characteristic of oxen or cows

Prattling-" He Made a habit of prattling at the top of his lungs through Sunday dinners at our house." (p74) : to utter or make meaningless sounds suggestive of the chatter of children

Interstitial- "intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea." (p76): situated within but not restricted to or characteristic of a particular organ or tissue — used especially of fibrous tissue

Specter- "His eyes in their bluging sockets ticked up and down, trying to understand the specter of this huge white man." (p81) : something that haunts or perturbs the mind

Definitions from www.merriamwebster.com