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

Category: Education

20 Terms

Created by: Carissa

Number of Blossarys: 6

My Terms
Collected Terms
English (EN)
Compare Language

The idea of nonconformity is essential to Emerson's essay. A nonconformist is literally someone who does their own thing. From the essay, "Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist".

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

Emerson writes, "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner." Nonchalance is when someone is indifferent or overly casual to someone / something.

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

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

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

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

Kindred is when you are family with someone, but it can also be when you feel close to someone.

Domain: Literature; Category: General literature

Importune is used to show that one begs persistently and urgently. The quote from the essay is, "I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines ...

Domain: Literature; Category: Literary terms

Member comments


( You can type up to 200 characters )

Post  
My other Blossarys

In Korea there are many words which are neither ...

Category: Languages

By: Carissa

Literature of the American Revolution is known ...

Category: Education

By: Carissa

This takes a look at Julius Caesar: the rhetoric, ...

Category: Education

By: Carissa

This is a great look at some of the words ...

Category: Literature

By: Carissa