Lesson I
This adjective rhymes with matter and means the second item of two. Referred to as the "last mentioned"
What is latter?
DAILY DOUBLE!! This word rhymes with rain. It is an adjective or adverb that means pleased(adj.) or gladly(adv.)
What is fain?
This word rhymes with shallow. _____________ refers to an unhealthy yellow or brownish color, usually of the face. This word was used to describe Mary in the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnet.
What is sallow?
This adjective rhymes with lawn and refers to a pallid or sickly tone.
What is wan?
This adjective rhymes with partial and means warlike.
What is martial?
A noun or verb that means sharp criticism. Loud acclamations hailed this ___________________.
What is rebuke?
This noun refers either to a large wave such as an ocean wave or to any great undulating mass.
What is billow?
A noun or verb that refers to an ugly, twisted facial expression, usually of disgust or pain. George Eliot, in Silas Marner, wrote, "Here the vivacious doctor made a pathetic __________."
What is grimace?
This adjective refers to a person (usually a woman) who is modest and shy.
What is demure?
A verb that means to place between, to insert, to interrupt, or to intervene. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte wrote that, "She held her hand ___________d between the furnace heat and her eyes."
What is interpose?
This word is an adjective that means sad or depressed. In James M. Barrie's Peter Pan, we read that "Hook was profoundly _________________."
What is dejected?
This word is a noun that refers to intense or passionate feeling about something. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the monster says, "I continued with unabated _____________ to traverse immense deserts."
What is fervor?
DAILY DOUBLE!! An adjective that means sullen, in a gloomy or foul mood. In The Call of the Wild, Jack London wrote that "He became more _______________ and irritable."
What is morose?
_______________ is a verb that means to accuse, to express disapproval. It can also be used as a noun. In Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native, a character says, "If I had known you wished to call me up here only to ____________ me, I wouldn't have come."
What is reproach?
Originally, a noun that refers to fluent, persuasive language. In Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggen wrote, "Miranda said nothing as she closed the door, but her looks were at once equivalent to and more ____________________ than words." (used as an adjective here) Answer can be the noun or adjective form.
What is eloquence or eloquent?
A word that means disheartened. He was ___________ and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.
What is despondent?
This word is a verb that means to reprimand or scold. In Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, we read that "I was soon bitterly __________d for this harshness."
What is reprove?
This adjective form of this word means lacking confidence. From Jane Austen's Emma: "She was always quick and assured; Isabella slow and _________."
What is diffident?
This noun refers to a formal, authoritative order, often one that prohibits something, as an ______________ against something. Mary Shelley, in Frankenstein, wrote that "my father's dying _______________ had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life."
What is injunction?
An adjective that refers to smug self-satisfaction. In Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, "They showed the __________________forbearance....."
What is complacent?
This word means an omen, warning sign. State this word in adjective form.
What is portentous?
This verb means to ask earnestly or anxiously. State this word in its noun form.
What is entreaty?
This verb means to show, to reveal. In Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, we read that "Tom began to __________ a growing distress."
What is evince?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!______________________ is a verb that means to express strong disagreement, to object earnestly. In Frankenstein, Mary Shelley described how a character "attempted to _____________________ with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.
What is expostulate?
This word refers to one's habit, one's custom in its noun form. What is the adjective form used in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter where we read that a character "could not find her ___________ place."?
What is wonted?