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Cry, the beloved country
Introduction
Alan Paton, author of this novel, grew up in south Africa. The novel is, partly, a chronicle that deeply troubled
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| naturalism | focuses on environmental an hereditary conditions as ultimate source of human behavior |
| liberalism | 1 generous 2 ample; abundant 3 not literal or strictt 4 tolerant; broad-minded 5 favoring reform or progress-n., one who favors refrm or progress |
| apartheid | strict racial segregation as practiced in South Africa |
| laboriously | 1 involving much hard work, difficult, hard-working, labored. |
| boycott | to join teogether in refusing to deal with, buy, etc. so as to punish or coerse, a boycotting |
| veld | in South Africa, open grassy country, with few bushes or trees. |
| travail | very hard work, intense pain, agony |
| jubilant | wild shout, jowful and triumphant, elated, rejoicing |
| desolate | lonely, solitary, uninhabited, laid waste, forlorn, to rid of inhabitants, to lay waste, to make forlorn |
| degradation | to demote, to lower in quality, moral charater, dignity, etc., debase, dishonor, etc. ---degradation (deg'reda'shen) n. |
| accomplice | a partner in crime |
| dubious | causing doubt, feeling doubt, skeptical, questionable |
| nurture | food, training, rearing, to feed or nourish, to train, educate, rear |
| irresolute | not resuolute, wavering, indecisive |
| symposium | conference to disucss a topic, a published group of opinions |
| delusion | -a deluding or being deluded, a false belief, specifically one that persists physchotically |
| disillusion | - to free from illusion, to take away the idealism of and make bitter, etc. |
| compassion | deep sympathy, pity |
| dispirited | of no spirit, lessened in spiritedness now |
| reluctant | - unwilling, disinclined, marked by unwillingness, a reluctant answer |
| reactionary | of, characterized by, or advocating reaction, especially in politics, an advocate of reaction, especially in politics |
| lorries | truck mop |
| indifferent | neutral, unconcerned, aptathetic, of no importane, average |
| permissible | that can be permitted, allowable |
| convictions | a convicting or being convicted, a being convinced, strong belief |
| rehabilitations | to restore to rank, reputation which one has lost, to put back in good condition, to bring or restore to a state of health |
| apathetic | - without, lack of emotion, indifference |
| indignation | righteous an |
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