Walden
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Vocabulary 2.0
Vocabulary
Brute Neighbors / Conclusion
100
The state where Thoreau lived simply.
What is Massachusetts?
100
Why does Thoreau decide to live in the woods?
What is "To live deliberately"?
100
Imitation is to copying as ___________ is to ridiculing
What is derision?
100
Ridicule or contempt
What is derision?
100
They were the brute neighbors.
Who are ants?
200
Metaphor or simile, "I want to live deep and suck the marrow of life".
What is a metaphor?
200
What is the main value of this passage that Thoreau is trying to emphasize?
Simplicity.
200
Carefree is to burdening as ____________ is to substantial
What is superficial?
200
on the surface, shallow
What is superficial?
200
Thoreau played a game with this bird on the lake
What is a loon?
300
Thoreau was this age when he left "civilized" society
What is 28?
300
How are our lives "like a German Confederacy"? Why does he decide to use this simile?
What is "We are unimportant, and valuing the wrong virtues. We have too many internal problems and are ruined by worthless expenses."
300
core is to surface as __________ is to never
What is incessantly?
300
very noisy, disorderly
What is tumultuous?
300
80 feet below the surface
What is how far below the surface loons have been caught on trout hooks?
400
______________, or Life in the Woods
What is "Walden"?
400
Explain the metaphor of our lives and railroads in the third column of "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For".
What is "We must build ourselves and create independent beings. We are the foundation of the railroad. We are not the train but the railroad."
400
heavenly is to deity as __________ is to clouds
What is ethereal?
400
not of the earth, spiritual
What is ethereal?
400
why Thoreau decided to leave the woods and return to civilization?
What is to live another life?
500
Two years
What is how long Thoreau lived at Walden?
500
Highly disciplined citizens of ancient Greek city-state
Who are "Spartans"?
500
aching is to discomfort as ________ is to applause
What is tumultuous?
500
without stopping, constantly
What is incessantly?
500
According to Thoreau, "life is like the water in a __________
What is a "river"?
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