Toni Morrison: Essays Glossary

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Fodder

Dried hay for cattle

Reification

Representation of something abstract

Breached

Broke through

Resuscitate

Bring back, rescue

Paradigm

Pattern, criterion

Hubris

Conceit, vanity

Hierarchy

Pecking order, ladder

Ramification

Consequences, development

Circumscribed

Restricted, curbed

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