I just finished reading "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois. Although the book was originally published in 1903 and addresses the life of "black folk" in the first few decades following the civil war, many of the themes remain relevant today.
Aside from the stories and messages of the book, I was aware Du Bois used many words that are not ordinarily part of my speaking vocabulary. I didn't think to keep track until the last few chapters, but these words were "new" to me: lithe, phantasm, pythian, metayer, mammonism, impudence, coign, wan, fetid, alembic, fervid, venality. Do you know the meanings of these words?
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