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This is a blossary containing key vocabulary needed to best understand Emerson's essay, "Self-Reliance."

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Emerson writes, "Our reading is mendicant." Mendicant is an adjective used to describe someone who on begging for a living.

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

Penance is a voluntary self punishment to make up for a wrong-going. Emerson wrote, "Their virtues are penances".

Domain: Religion; Category: General religion

Emerson writes, "more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Lustre is a shine or glimmer.

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

Render is to provide or cause something to happen. Emerson wrote, "our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment".

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

Latent is something stored, but not active. Emerson wrote, "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense".

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

The text says, "Our reading is mendicant and sycophantic." A sycophantic is when someone is attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery.

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

Similar to admonish upbraid is when someone scolds you sharply. The quote from the essay is, "Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father, mother, cousin, neighbour, town, cat, and ...

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

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