A to B
suspicion or fear especially of future evil, foreboding; seizure by legal process, arrest; the act or power of perceiving or comprehending something
apprehension
lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight; criminally or tragically foolish actions, conduct, or ideas; an excessively costly or unprofitable undertaking
folly
with extreme care concerning the result of a movement or action; very cautiously
gingerly
Ellison's namesake
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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the ability to recover quickly from depression or discouragement, resilience; the property of maintaining a satisfactorily high level (as of prices or economic activity); the tendency of a body to float or to rise when submerged in a fluid
intensity of feeling or expression; extreme heat
fervor
to intervene between parties with a view to reconciling differences, mediate
intercede
Ellison's hometown
Oklahoma City
a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way; an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
alchemy
propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance; orderliness; the conventions of polite behavior
decorum
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connection, link (especially causal); a connected group or series; center, focus
The year Invisible Man was published
1952
having no definite form, shapeless; being without definite character or nature, unclassifiable; lacking organization or unity
amorphous
of or relating to the regions beyond the earth; celestial, heavenly, unworldly, spiritual; lacking material substance, immaterial, intangible; marked by unusual delicacy or refinement
ethereal
cut short or apart in performing, disconnected; abrupt, disjointed; marked by short clear-cut playing or singing of tones or chords
staccato
the electric company the narrator steals from
Monopolated Light & Power
a state of intense and almost uncontrollable anger
apoplexy
purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art which may bring about spiritual renewal or release from tension
catharsis
blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light; hard to understand or explain; obtuse, thickheaded
opaque
the Louis Armstrong song the narrator references in the prologue
"What Did I Do to Be so Black and Blue"