1. Mute: refraining from speech or temporarily speechless.

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40]
a. Sentence: Then she sat down at this table, and put her head on it,
and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the
suffering of oxen, with the of any are mute.
b. My sentence: As the pastor was praying, all the room went mute.
2. Gravely: giving cause for alarm. [page 53]
a. Sentence: Msimangu said gravely, yes, she is very sick.
b. My sentence: His face was gravely disturbed.
3. Articulately: showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently.
[page 61]
a. Sentence: In articulately he strokes her face, his heart filled up with
pity.
b. My sentence: he articulately said, hi.
4. Reconciled: friendly relations between. [page 61]
a. Sentence: And thus reconciled, they sat hand in hand.
b. My sentence: She wanted to be reconciled with her father.
5. Stipend: a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance. [page
64]
a. Sentence: To save ten pounds from a stipend of eight pounds a
month takes much patience and time, especially for a parson, who
must dress in good black clothes.
b. My sentence: They pay me my stipend every two weeks.
6. Irresolute: showing or feeling hesitancy. [page 79]
a. Sentence: So getting no peace, she rose irresolute, and went to a
room behind, and after some time passed she returned with the bible.
b. My sentence: she stood irresolute outside of his door.
7. Corrugated: shaped into alternate ridges and grooves. [page 88]
a. Sentence: There is corrugated iron at the reformatory, they use it to
cover the bricks.
b. My sentence: the roof was made of corrugated iron.
8. Travail: painful or laborious effort. [page 90]
a. Sentence: Africa that is my own, delivered in travail from my body,
fed from my breast, loved by my heart, because that is the nature of
women.
b. My sentence: Advise for those who wish to save great sorrow and
travail.
9. Obscure: not discovered or known about. [page 93]
a. Sentence: He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and
with these little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose
obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing.
b. My sentence: His origins and parentage are obscure.
10.Desolate: deserted of people and in a state or bleak and dismal
emptiness. [page 93]
a. Sentence: And then in one fraction of the time the hills with the
deep melodious names stood out and desolate beneath the pitiless
sun, over the red and rootless earth.
b. My sentence: a desolate moor.
11. Muse: be absorbed in thought. [page 93]
a. Sentence: His voice would falter and die away, and he would fall
silent and muse.
b. My sentence: He used to muse on all the problems he used to
face.