"Her face was lit up by such a luminous, radiant smile" (p. 131)

Luminous means

"Min tried to conceal her chagrin, tried to keep it from showing on her face." (130)

Chagrin means

"Min tried to conjecture what the package was." (126)

Conjecture means

"On other jobs the care of innumerable children had been added..." (126)

Innumerable means

Some of her madams had been openly contemptuous women... (p. 126)

Contemptuous means

"The prophet's eyes didn't contain that derisive look she was accustomed to seeing in most people's eyes" (p. 133)

Definition: (adverb) in a way that cannot be explained or accounted for

Lutie walked away brusquely while Mrs. Hedges was still speaking.

Brusquely means

The frozen debris and the icy wind made the street a desolate place. (p. 141)

Debris means

The white people on the downtown streets who stared at her with open hostility in their eyes" (p. 70) Hostility means

Lutie was always very courteous when speaking to Mrs. Chandler.

Courteous means

"The beer was incidental and unimportant." (p. 145)

Incidental means

He had resigned himself to just looking at the young girls who lived in her apartment." (p. 92) "resigned himself to X" means

"Looking at the accumulation of trash, she was appalled" (p. 74)

Appalled means

"He kept staring at the lipstick and almost involuntarily he reached out without moving his chair and picked it up" (p. 105)

Involuntarily means