AF: Vocab --> The Awakening

Love these blog posts that came out of Socratic Seminar.

Oh, oops.  I'll bet you've been looking for these words.

evince
He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him, and valued so little his conversation.

tacit
They seemed never before to have weighed much against the abundance of her husband's kindness and a uniform devotion which had come to be tacit and self-understood.

iota
She was growing a little stout, but it did not seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

efface
They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

impervious
But she did not want to appear unamiable and uninterested, so she had brought forth newspapers, which she spread upon the floor of the gallery, and under Madame Ratignolle's directions she had cut a pattern of the impervious garment.

droll
Oftener than once her coming had interrupted the droll story with which Robert was entertaining some amused group of married women.

remonstrate
She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.

languorous
The sun was low in the west, and the breeze soft and languorous that came up from the south, charged with the seductive odor of the sea.