Saturday, 10 August 2013

Vocabulary Lists for Quarter One

There are three lists for each novel. We may not make it through every one, but for now...here they are: 

Brave New World: 1. Utopia, dystopia, largesse, florid, prodigious, decant, suffuse, officious, aperture, surreptitious, evocation, pneumatic, soma, incessant, annihilate. 2. Imperious, plangent, solecism, intrinsic, predestine, effusive, surrogate, paradoxical, Demi-John, tactile, viviparous, sibilant, maudlin, discarnate, monogamy. 3. Truculent, promiscuous, simian, ruminate, ascetic, satiate, fulminate, pueblo, precipice, incredulity, prone, asceptic, obsidian, vestal, languish, eminence.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 1. Cagey, brassy, ornery, defunct, sinewy, overzealous, protocol, taut, veritable, ethereally, matriarchy, placate, prattle, thwarted, aplomb. 2. Mete, indigents, forlornly, philanthropy, chicanery, effrontery, arbitrate, courtesan, atrocities, dogged, Jezebel, irrevocable, hovel, circumvent, flouting. 3. Apathy, knead, schematic, nemesis, squalid, sadistic, wheedle, ramshackle, ineffectual, jounce, gaff, prototype, folio, lobotomy, punitive.

Wuthering Heights: 1. Virulency, canister, ensconce, condole, actuate, churlish, guffaw, signet, gaiter, laconic, slovenly, reprobate, disparity, vex, flummox. 2. Evince, miscreant, morose, taciturn, physiognomy, interpose, encroach, tacit, conjecture, parry, hale, rheumatism, copious, surmise, vigilant. 3. Solace, griffin, beneficent, deign, stalwart, amiss, austere, malignant, haughty, tumult, tempest, provincial, pious, obscure, retort.

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