In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Glossary

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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Glossary

Exalted

At a high rank

Yoked

To be joined in a close relationship.

Odious

Repulsive or unpleasant

Pandemonium

A noisy disordered state

Vagabond

One who wanders from place to place

Lustred

Having an iridescent surface

Taut

Streched or pulled tightly

Gilt

Covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint

Daubers

Inartistic painters

Rootworking

A form of folk magic in which people use the elements of nature to create change in themselves, others, or the environment

Pestilence

A fatal epidemic disease

Jubilation

Great happiness

Contemptuous

Treating a person or a thing as worthless or beneath consideration

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