1. Make entries in the vocabulary section of your notebook for the following words:
VOCABULARY FROM “COMING INTO LANGUAGE” (9 words)
1. exhort (v.)
Sentence: “Padre Hidalgo exhorting Mexican peasants to
revolt against the Spanish dictators”(1)2. inarticulateness (n.)
Sentence: “My inarticulateness increased my sense of jeopardy, of being endangered.”
3. hone (v.)
Sentence: “But I honed by image-making talents in that sensory-deprived solitude.”
4. encroach (v.)
Sentence: “But then, the encroaching darkness that began to envelop me forced me to re-form and give birth to myself again in the chaos.”
5. regenerative (adj.)
Sentence: “I withdrew even deeper in the world of language . . . plunging into the brilliant light of poetry’s regenerative mystery.
6. acute (adj.)
Sentence: “I wrote of the emotional butchery of prisons, and of my acute gratitude of poetry.”
7. sublimate (v.)
Sentence: “I wrote to sublimate my rage, from a place where all hope is gone . . .”
8. affirm (v.)
Sentence: “I wrote . . . to affirm breath and laughter and the abiding innocence of things.”
9. abiding (adj.)
Sentence: “I wrote . . . to affirm breath and laughter and the abiding innocence of things.”
Here is the format for the vocabulary entry:
