Category: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
English (EN) The text says, "Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic." A sycophantic is when someone is attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.
Latent is something stored, but not active. Emerson wrote, "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense".
Render is to provide or cause something to happen. Emerson wrote, "our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment".
Emerson writes, "more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Lustre is a shine or glimmer.
Penance is a voluntary self punishment to make up for a wrong-going. Emerson wrote, "Their virtues are penances".
Emerson writes, "Our reading is mendicant." Mendicant is an adjective used to describe someone who on begging for a living.
Emerson writes, "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner." Nonchalance is when someone is indifferent or overly casual to someone / something.
By: Carissa