Their Eyes Were Watching God

-noun: socially acceptable behavior, dress, speech-positive/neutral?-Nanny-Nanny always follows the decorum and urges Janie to do the same, by wearing the right clothes and agreeing to Society's rules.

-verb: to divert from a sacred use of purpose-negative-Janie with Joe's funeral-The townspeople believed Janie desecrated Joe's holy death by not mourning appropriately in the eyes of God.

-adj: in a state of ecstasy, excited-positive--When I got my SAT scores, they were so great that I was ecstatic and jumping around smiling.

-verb: to rise or come forth-neutral--Joe emerged as if from out of nowhere to offer Janie to live with him. She didn't know him before this moment.

-verb: to avoid/escape by speed, trickery, cleverness-negative--I had to elude my mother's questions about where I was by telling her I felt sick.

-adj: savage fierceness--Janie against Nanny-When Nanny told Janie that Janie must marry Logan, Janie yelled and argued, showing her true ferocity.

-verb: to bewilder-negative-Janie to the townspeople-Janie flummoxed the townspeople when she ran away with Tea Cake; they were shocked at her actions.

-adj: irritable, testy-negative-Mrs. Turner-After I got a failing grade, I was fretful for the rest of the day; after, all of my friends saw that I was irritable and left me alone.

-adj: unruly, readily angered-negative-Mrs. Turner-Alex is so fractious: he gets mad over the smallest things and stays angry.

-adj: useless, ineffective-negative-Janie and Logan's marriage-Janie's marriage to Logan was futile because they weren't in love and they never had a baby. According to Janie, those are two qualities that make a marriage successful and useful.

-noun: extreme exaggeration-negative?-Joe's depiction of Janie and his's marriage-My friend speaks in hyperbole often, and exaggerates all of her stories.

-adj: not believing, skeptical/doubtful-negative-Janie of Tea Cake's honesty-Janie was so incredulous about Tea Cake's honesty that she took $200 with her after she married him just in case he wasn't as wonderful as seemed.

-noun: an implied hint--paragraph about Janie's sexuality-The paragraph about Janie sitting under a tree had the insinuation that she was masturbating but there was no outward mention of it.

-verb: to tear roughly, to distress mentally or emotionally-negative-Joe's treatment of Janie-Joe lacerated Janie physically and emotionally because he hit her and put her down constantly.

-verb: to lose vigor or vitality, to become weak or feeble-negative-Joe when dying-After Janie insulted Joe, he languished, becoming sick and weak and died.