Week Nineteen
(January 2-6)
I will present Chapters 1, 2, and 3 when we begin our study of Jane Eyre upon our return from Winter Break. I do, however, believe that to understand the initial discussion, you should peruse the first three chapters as well. Highlighting and annotating are mandatory as we study this novel. I am including the first word list; I thought if time permits, you might want to wrtie the following words on a flashcard:
front side - the word and the parts of speech
back side - a synonym and a practice sentence for any word that you do not understand
List I
vignette
ghastly
visage
antipathy
sallowness
impudence
ignominy
turbid
acrid
captious
opprobrium
ire
bourne
preternatural
embolden
debase
genteel
forlorn
chastise
execration
desist
hiatus
usury
poltroon
benefactress
List II
tenor, sequester, gait, multiplicity, traverse, inanition, refectory, quell, inclement, slattern, truculent, perfidious, infamy, malady, ferret, soporific, ostensible, redundancy, salient, cachinnate, conjecture, gregarious, salubrious, enigmatic, sardonic
List III
lugubrious, harangue, sonorous, culpable, charlatan, inextricable, fastidious, sanguine, doff, quail, predominate, skepticism, exultation, coercion, hypochondriac, impediment, aperture, intractable, clad, austere, scrupulous, relinquish, enunciate, surmise, lacerate