Category: Education
Created by: Carissa
Number of Blossarys: 6
Kindred is when you are family with someone, but it can also be when you feel close to someone.
Latent is something stored, but not active. Emerson wrote, "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense".
Emerson writes, "more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Lustre is a shine or glimmer.
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.
The idea of nonconformity is essential to Emerson's essay. A nonconformist is literally someone who does their own thing. From the essay, "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist".
Emerson wrote, "What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text." An oracle is someone who can tell the future.
By: Carissa