The Grass is Singing

The Grass is Singing Glossary

Immunize

To inoculate against disease

Innumerable

Too many to count

Sentimentality

A style of state of mind characterized by heightened emotions

Withered

Deprived of water and dying

Imperceptible

Invisible, not accessible to the senses

Companionship

The state of being with another, for another

Stinting

Restricting

Craving

Intense desire

Profound

Deep

Distaste

Aversion

Abstraction

Removed from the concrete and specific

Furtive

Secretive

Nasty

Cruel, unpleasant

Abasement

Making lower, humiliation

Sjambok

A kind of heavy leather whip used in South Africa

Kopje

A small hill or mound in South Africa

Veld

The South African field

Amorphous

Without form

Varnish

Resin dissolved in liquid, used for finishing wood

Insidiously

Threateningly