Prose essay + West essay words

"I know why the caged bird cannot read" + "This Caged Bird Can Read, Thanks”

appalled

greatly dismayed or horrifed

sentient

able to percieve or feel things

allegiances

loyalty/commitment of person to person or person to group/cause

idiosyncratic

peculiar or individual

percolate

filter gradually through a porous surface/substance

treacly

extremely sentimental 

sententious

given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner 

turgid

swollen and distended or congested;

language style of tediously pompous or bombastic 

felicitous

well chosen or suited to the circumstances; pleasing/fortunate 

soporific

tending to induce drowsiness or sleep

ballast

something that gives stablility or substance

overwrought

in a state of nervous excitement or anxiety

adversarial

opposed/hostile

agoraphobic

extreme fear of entering open/crowded spaces; of leaving one’s own home; places where escape is difficult 

prognosis

the likely course of a disease/ailment 

multilayered

having or involved several or many layers 

cantankerous

bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative 

posthumously

after the death of the originator 

alchemically

in a way that is so effective that it seems like magic

convoluted

(esp. for an argument/story/sentence) extremely complex and difficult to follow 

dearth

a scarcity/lack of something

canon

a general law/rule/principle/criterion by which something is judged;

a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine

lambastes

criticize (someone/something) harshly

mediocre

of only moderate quality; not very good

decrying

publicly denounce or condemn

felicitously

adverb form of feliticious

apocalyptic

resembling the end of the world; momentous or catastrophic

dichotomy

a division or contrast between two things that are, or are represented as being opposed or entirely different. 

contemporary

living/belonging/occuring in the present

legitimacy

ability to be defended with logic or justification