American lit vocab

Porte - Monnaie

A small purse or wallet, used for coins

Judicious

Showing good judgement or sense

Appreciable

Large or important enough to be noticed

Percale

A smooth tightly woven cotton fabric

Veritable

Real or genuine; often used for emphasis

Morbid

Unhealthy or gloomy. Mostly in thinking/attitude

Retrospection

The act of looking back on or reviewing past events

Gaunt

Thin and bony, or grim and bleak

Persistence

The quality of continuing firmly despite difficulty

Fastidious

Very attentive to detail; hard to please

Preposterous

Ridiculous or absurd

Profusion

A large quantity or abundance

Matinée

A daytime performance of a play or movie

Gaudy

Bright or showy in a tasteless way

Poignant

Deeply touching or emotionally moving