Vocabulary Task (Several times a week)
Word:____________________________________ Sentence from literature containing word (or from Common Core Word
List): ________________________________________________________________________________________________
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Context of the word’s use: ______________________________________________________________________________
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Part(s) of speech:_____________________________________Etymology (origin)_________________________________
Synonyms: ____________________________________________ Antonyms (if available):___________________________
Definition in full: _____________________________________________________________________________________
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Use word in a sentence in a showing/telling way which reveals the meaning: ____________________________________
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Explain why the sentence uses the word correctly:_________________________________________________________
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Words 1-12 are from the Biblical Allusion packet (except 2)
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Deferentially – The Crucible
Minion – summer list
Profane – Romeo and Juliet
Purged – Romeo and Juliet
Upbraids – Othello
Malice - Othello
Forsake - Othello
Etherized - Prufrock
Insidious - Prufrock
Obtuse – Prufrock
Malingers – Prufrock
Swell – Prufrock
There will be a test on 1-10 when the notes are complete. This list will have further words added. The cumulative list will be part of a
comprehensive vocabulary final at the end of semester I.
Example: Word: deferentially
Sentence from literature containing word (or from Common Core Word List): “Aye, sir.
Very deferentially; If I may say it, sir, I know this man all my life. It is a good man, sir.”
The Crucible.
Context of the word’s use:A servant is speaking to a powerful judge describing a witness in the court. He is being respectful
towards the judge.
Part of speech: adverb (see the “ly” ending), ‘deferential’ is an adjective but this is not the word.
Etymology: French, 1815-25
Synonyms: courteous, reverential
Antonyms: disrespectful
Definition: marked by or showing deference or respect;respectful. Medical definition is
of or relating to the vas deferens. The second definition clearly is not the correct one based on the context.
Use word in a sentence in a showing/telling way which reveals the meaning:The minion behaved deferentially in front of
the king; the minion showed the king great respect.
Explain why the sentence uses the word correctly: This is used correctly because ‘deferentially’ is an adverb and adverbs
modify verbs. The word modified by ‘deferentially’ is ‘behaved’ which is a verb.
Short Story Vocabulary List
BOLD = IEP
page numbers refer to pages in Language of Literature (BOB)
1.
clerk – “The Necklace” (de Maupassant 28)
1. palpable - Most Dangerous Game (Connell 40)
2.
vexation 28
2. dank 40
3.
disconsolate 28/31
3. lore 40
4.
curios 28
4. tangible 41
5.
dowry 28
5. quarry - 43
6.
adornments 30
6. palatial 43
7.
pauper 30
7. chateau 43
8.
adulation 30
8. gargoyle 43
9.
aghast 32
9. disarming 43 (not to do with guns)
10. gamut 32
10. affable 45
11. privations 33
11. baronial 45
12. exorbitant 33
12. refectory 45
13. askew 33
13. debacle 48
14. garret 33
14. imprudent 48
15. compromised 33
15. droll 49
16. clad 33
16. scruple 49
17. grisly 49
18. solicitously 51
19. zealous 53
1. fecund “The Most Dangerous Game” (O’Brien 64)
8. chary – “Marigolds” (Collier 76)
2. silhouette 64
9. stoicism 79
3. diffuse 66
10. perverse 79
4. conical 66
11. bravado 79
5. inert 67
12. impotent 81
6. valiantly 68
13. degradation 83
7. succumbing 68
14. verve 84
15. squalor 84
16. barren 84
Short Story Vocabulary Continued
1.
predominating “The Gift of the Magi” (Henry 153)
1. preclude “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe 209)
2.
vestibule 153
2. impunity 209
3.
agile 153
3. virtuoso 209
4.
appertaining 153
4. accost 209
5.
imputation 153
5. immolation 209
6.
parsimony 153
6. connoisseurship 209
7.
fob 154 (all definitions)
7. motley 209
8.
cascade 154
8. filmy 210
9.
prudence 154
9. gesticulation 211
10. assertion 156
10. mason 211
11. discreet 156
11. crypt 212
12. coveted 157
12. implore 212
13. chronicle 157
13. fettered 212
14. tresses 157
14. rapier 214
15. nimble 157
15. aperture 214
16. inconsequential 156
16. rampart 214
1.
apparatus “Angela’s Ashes” (McCourt 248)
11. enveloped “The Sniper” (O’Flaherty 163)
2.
relapse 249
12. beleaguered 163
3.
induced249
13. spasmodically 163
4.
breeches 250
14. ascetic 164
5.
blight 251
15. paroxysm 165
6.
pagan 251
16. ruse 165
7.
perfidy 252
17. recoil 166
8.
clamoring 254
18. gibber 166
9.
Protestant 254
19. reel 166 (all definitions)
10. highwayman 254
20. remorse 166
Vocabulary in Romeo and Juliet (Act I) SEMESTER II
1. pernicious 996
2. forfeit 996
3. adversary 997
4. fray 997
5. augmenting 997
6. counsel 998
7. propagate 999
8. vanity 999
9. tyrannous 999
10. chaste 1000
11. doctrine 1000
12. marred 1001
13. bound 1001 (all definitions)
14. apparel 1001
15. languish 1002
16. nuptial 1013
17. scathe 1015
18. disparagement 1015
19. virtuous 1016
20. prodigious 1018
(Act II)
1. conjure 1021
2. invocation 1022
3. consorted 1022
4. enmity 1024
5. orb 1026
6. idolatry 1026
7. procure 1027
8. rind 1029
9. fiery 1029
10. brine 1031
11. doting 1031
12. rancor 1031
13. counterfeit 1033
14. bauble 1034
15. convoy 1037
16. warrant 1039
17. bandy 1038
18. drudge 1040
19. toil 1040
20 chide 1040
2. discord 1045
3. vile 1046/1049
4. slander 1048
5. valor 1048
6. kinsman 1048
7. dexterity 1050
8. stout 1050 (all defs)
9. exile 1051
10. civil 1051
11. pardon (all definitions)
12. mantle 1052
13. fiend 1053
14. perjured 1054
15. lamentation 1054
16. tributary 1054
17. beguiled 1055
18. enamored 1055
19. calamity 1055
20 purgatory 1056
(Act III)
1. quarrel
1044
(Act III, IV, V)
1. sever 1062
2. jocund 1062
3. lark (all defs)
4. conduit 1067
5. tempest 1067
6. prostrate 1077
7. orisons 1078
8. stifled 1079
9. shroud 1079
10. kindred 1087
11. culling 1088
12. cordial 1089
13. pestilence 1090
14. morsel 1093
15. apprehend 1093
16. ensign
17. interred 1094
18. inauspicious 1094
19. amorous 1094
20. abhorred 1094