Vocabulary
A Tale of Two Cities
Connections
Grammar
Potpourri
100
Part of speech: Prevalent
What is an adjective?
100
This year marks the beginning of Tale of Two Cities
What is 1776?
100
Besides the Jews, this group sought refuge from the Germans
Who are Gypsies, Roma or Homosexuals (all are valid)?
100
These include on, in, at, and inside
What are prepositions?
100
This is the name of the first book we read this year.
What is Tales of the Unexpected?
200
Part of speech: Livid
What is an adjective?
200
This is the Biblical character Carton could be allegorically related to?
Who is Jesus Christ?
200
Dubious could aptly describe some of the tale in this book, the first one we read.
What is Tales of the Unexpected?
200
This part of speech can be confused with adjectives.
What is an adverb?
200
This is Ms. Pross’ brother’s born name.
What is Solomon Pross?
300
The word means to be excessively greedy
What is rapacious?
300
This is the title of the second book of TOTC
What is the Golden Thread
300
This French land-owner in Tale of Two Cities could be described as rapacious
Who is the Marquis Ste. Evremondé
300
In the sentence "Jake is six feet tall," the word 'is' can be described as this type of verb.
What is linking?
300
This is the title of TOTC’s first book.
What is Recalled to Life?
400
To have this word in our vocabulary would be the opposite of having health.
What is a malady?
400
Dickens released TOTC weekly in this year.
What is 1859?
400
The weather of Buna in Night could be described using this vocabulary word.
What is inclement?
400
In the sentence, “Did you give the Smiths and (they, them) your new address?” This is the correct pronoun.
What is them?
400
This is the nationality of the girl Elie met on the subway 30 years later?
What is French?
500
This word is a synonym of furtive in our vocabulary
What is latent?
500
This number, in years, was the tenure of Dr. Manette’s imprisonment at the Bastille
What is 18 years?
500
This word described the time between when Darnay first gets acquitted and when he is retried
What is a reprieve?
500
In the sentence “He, her and they gave him the keys,” this is the subject.
What is “he, her and they”?
500
In this book in Tales of the Unexpected the wife leaves her abusive husband in the elevator to die.
What is the Way Up to Heaven
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