2) Oates, Joyce Carol. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...American writer whose works often concern love and violence in American society. Among her novels are A Garden of Earthly Delights (1967), Bellefleur (1980), and...

3) Kilmer, (Alfred) Joyce. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...American poet whose best known work is Trees (1913). He was killed in World War I....

4) Cary, (Arthur) Joyce (Lunel). The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...British writer whose novels, including The Horse's Mouth (1944), concern the necessity of personal freedom....

5) posterity. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...1. Future generations: Everything he writes is consigned to posterity (Joyce Carol Oates). 2. All of a person's descendants. Middle English posterite, from Old French,...

6) charismatic. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...relating to, or characterized by charisma: the warmth of a naturally charismatic leader (Joyce Carol Oates). 2. Of, relating to, or being a type of Christianity that...

7) erasure. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...of being erased: The powerful images of his work . punishment, mutilation, erasure (Joyce Carol Oates)....

8) proven. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...or verified without doubt: a Soviet leader of proven shrewdness and prescience (Joyce Carol Oates). See Usage Note at prove. provenˇly -ADVERB...

9) larger than life. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life (Joyce Carol Oates)....

10) oblivion. The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
...he writes is consigned to posterity (oblivion's other, seemingly more benign, face) (Joyce Carol Oates). 2. The act or an instance of forgetting; total forgetfulness:...