The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Glossary

The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail Glossary

Dissemination

Circulation, communication

Placate

Humour, pacify

Dictum

Mandate, proclamation

Rumination

Meditation, contemplation

Blasphemous

Ungodly, profane

Parabola

U shaped curve

Furtive

Cloaked, secret

Discrepancies

Differences, inconsistencies

Transcendentalism

A famous philosophical movement based in 19th-century New England

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