Vocabulary 3
English 11
nd
2
Semester
Perilous
• Dangerous
Recoup
• To regain
Skeptical
• Disbelieving
Titillate
• To excite
Willy
• Crafty, Sly
Arbitrary
• Chosen at
random
Benevolent
• Kind
Chiromancer
• Palm Reader
Dissent
• Disagreement
Marauder
•Raider
Novels
And
Authors
All Quiet on the Western
Front
by
Erich Maria Remarque
•
A ll Quiet on the Western Front is
narrated by Paul Bäumer, a
young man of nineteen who
fights in the German army on the
French front in World War I. Paul
and several of his friends from
school joined the army
voluntarily after listening to the
stirring patriotic speeches of
their teacher, Kantorek. But after
experiencing ten weeks of brutal
training at the hands of the petty,
cruel Corporal Himmelstoss and
the unimaginable brutality of life
on the front, Paul and his friends
have realized that the ideals of
nationalism and patriotism for
which they enlisted are simply
empty clichés. They no longer
believe that war is glorious or
honorable, and they live in
constant physical terror.
Doctor Faustus
by
Christopher Marlow
D octor Faustus, a well-respected
German scholar, grows dissatisfied
with the limits of traditional forms
of knowledge—logic, medicine,
law, and religion—and decides that
he wants to learn to practice
magic. His friends Valdes and
Cornelius instruct him in the black
arts, and he begins his new career
as a magician by summoning up
Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite
Mephastophilis’s warnings about
the horrors of hell, Faustus tells
the devil to return to his master,
Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s
soul in exchange for twenty-four
years of service from
Mephastophilis. Meanwhile,
Wagner, Faustus’s servant, has
picked up some magical ability and
uses it to press a clown named
Robin into his service.
The Waste Land
by
T. S. Eliot
Because of his wide-ranging
contributions to poetry,
criticism, prose, and drama,
some critics consider Thomas
Sterns Eliot one of the most
influential writers of the
twentieth century. The Waste
Land can arguably be cited as
his most influential work.
There are only two master
themes in the poem, which in
turn, generate many subthemes. The first of these
major themes is
disillusionment, which Eliot
indicates is the current state
of affairs in modern society,
especially the post—World War
I Europe in which he lived.
The Elephant Man
by
Christine Sparks
Based on the true story of
Joseph Merrick, a 19thcentury Englishman
afflicted with a
disfiguring congenital
disease. With the help of
kindly Dr. Frederick
Treves, Merrick attempts
to regain the dignity he
lost after years spent as
a side-show freak.
The Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People
by Stephen Covey
The 'Seven Habits' are a
remarkable set of
inspirational and
aspirational standards for
anyone who seeks to live a
full, purposeful and good
life, and are applicable
today more than ever, as
the business world
becomes more attuned to
humanist concepts.
Covey's values are full of
integrity and humanity, and
contrast strongly with the
process-based ideologies
that characterised
management thinking in
• habit 1 - be proactive
• habit 2 - begin with the
end in mind
• habit 3 - put first
things first
• habit 4 - think win-win
• habit 5 - seek first to
understand and then to
be understood
• habit 6 - synergize
• habit 7 - sharpen the
saw
Cenophobia
• Fear of new
things or
ideas