Margaret Walker: Poems Glossary

Margaret Walker: Poems Glossary

Array

a collection of similar or identical elements

Vested

to give someone power or material things

Candor

an open person or someone who is truthful

Cicerone

a tourist guide

Matron

a woman who acts as a medical professional at a boarding house

Fagging

working hard

Lamed

an animal which is injured

Chum

a close friend

Bumptious

a word used to describe an extremely irritating person

Praepostor

a monitor at a public school

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