Commencement (n.): The beginning or first stages of an event; a ceremony in which diplomas are conferred on graduating students. You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings (15).
Satiate (v.): To satisfy or quench a strong desire. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never before visited, and may tread a land never before imprinted by the foot of man (16).
Peruse (v.): To read or look over something, often in a quick or casual way. These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven (16).
Fortitude (n.): Mental and emotional resilience; the ability to endure pain or adversity with courage. I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude (17).
Cultivate (v.): To foster the growth of something; to improve or refine one’s mind by studying. I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to approve or amend my plans (19).
Allusion (n.): A reference within one work of literature to another work of literature. I shall kill no albatross, therefore do not be alarmed for my safety, or if I should come back to you as worn and woeful as the ‘Ancient Mariner.’ You will smile at my allusion; but I will not disclose a secret (21).
Emaciated (v.): To become weak and thin; to waste away physically. His limbs were nearly frozen, and his body dreadfully emaciated by fatigue and suffering (26).
Multitude (n.): A large number of things or people; a group of ordinary or common people. This aroused the stranger’s attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the daemon, as he called him, had pursued (27).
Animate (v.): To give life to something; to fill someone with energy and liveliness. From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger (28).
Discernment (n.): The ability to perceive and understand things with clarity. Sometimes I have endeavored to discover what quality it is which he possesses, that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew. I believe it to be an intuitive discernment; a quick but never-failing power of judgment; a penetration to the causes of things (30).
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