Vocabulary

countenance- a persons facial expression (page 43) "Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enble Bingley to keep his countenance. Bridgid **Partiality**- showing unfair bias or favoritism toward someone/something when comparing it to others "I do not trust my own partiality." (Page 44) Leah **caprice**: (n) sudden, unpredictable change, as in one's mind or the weather; "Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice" (pg 7) Alexa
 * Pride and Prejudice**
 * disconcerted -** adj. bewildered or confused, as by something unexpected; "Catherine was disconcerted and made no answer" (page 30). Lilly
 * blowsy**- dishevelled, flushed-looking; slatternly(pg 36): " Her hair so untidy, so blowsy!"- Jennifer
 * ostentation**- n. pretentious and vulgar display, esp. of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice. "But to be candid without ostentation or design- to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad- belongs to you alone." -Melissa
 * obstinacy-** n. stubbornness; "Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?" (page 48) Jeanne
 * Complacency**: (n.) the fact or state of being pleased with a thing or person; extreme self-satisfaction; smugness (page 35) "Her brother, indeed, was the only one of the party whom she could regard with any complacency." Hope
 * inclination-** A tendency toward a certain condition or character: "Do not feel a great inclination" pg 50 Dempsey
 * simpleton: ( ** n) an ignorant, foolish, or silly person; "If I can preceive her regard for him, he must be a simpleton indeed not to discover it too." (pg 23) Alexa
 * alacrity **(noun) - promptness in response; cheerful readiness; "Miss Bingley moved with alacrity to the piano-forte..." (page 50) isabel
 * A Midsummer Night's Dream**

promontory  nuptial

revelling

vexation filch

sovereignty

beguiled- trick or charm(page 23 line 245) "Because in choice he is so oft beguiled" Bridgid interlude- an entertainment that comes between other events(page 25 line 6) "to play in our interlude before the Duke and the Duchess on his wedding day at night." Bridgid **knavish**- adj. dishonest and mischevious. "...or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow." (page 37 lines 34-35) Leah **extempore**- adj. Improvised, made up at the spur of the moment. "You may do it extempore, for it is nothing but roaring." (page 27 lines 66-67) Leah **tunable**- adj. melodious: "Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue's sweet air more tunable than lark to shepherd's ear when wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear." (page 19 line 187) Melissa (Hope) **Dewlap**: n. the fold of skin hanging from the neck of certain animals; it is applied to a woman in A Midsummer Night's Dream; "And on her withered dewlap pour the ale" (page 37, line 52) (Hope) **Folly**: n. Lack of good sense; foolishness; a foolish idea, act or practice; "HIs folly, Helena, is no fault of mine" (page 21, line 205) **Dowager:** n. woman who holds some title or property from her deceased husband; "She lingers my desires like to a stepdame or a dowager.." (page 7, lines 4-5) Alexa **Lingers**: v. T o remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected; "She lingers my desires like a stepdame or a dowager" (page 7, line 4-5) Caitlyn eyne: eyes (n)- "Ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne..."(pg 23: 248)-jennifer humor(n): inclination- "Yet my chief humor is for a measure."(pg25:26-27)-jennifer
 * Solemnities** - n. festive ceremonies; "And then the moon, like to a silver bow new-bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities" (page 7 lines 9-11). Lilly
 * Extenuate** - v. to underestimate, underrate, or make light of; "Or else the law of Athens yields you up (which by no means we may extenuate)" (page 15 lines 121-122). Lilly
 * condole**- verb grieve(with): "I will move storms; I will condole in some measure." (page 25 line 25) Melissa
 * Beteem-** grant; give : "Beteem them from the tempest of my eyes." (page 15 line 133) anne
 * Prevailment-** influence: "Of strong prevailment in unhardened youth." (page 9 line 36) anne
 * Pert-** lively: "Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth." (page 7 line 14) jenna
 * Con-** learn: "to con them by tomorrow night and meet me in the palace wood" (page 29 line 96) jenna
 * Gallant-** brave,spirited,noble-minded,or chivalrous : "A lover that kills himself most gallant for love." (page 25 line 22) Jeanne
 * Waggish-** roguish in merriment and good humor; jocular: "As waggish boys in game themselves forswear" (page 23 line 246) Jeanne
 * Gauds:** n. showy playthings "With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, conceits, knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats- messengers of strong prevailment in unhardened youth." (page 9, lines 34-36) Katie
 * Lodestar:** n. stars that sailors used to guide them " Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue's sweet air."(page 19, line186) Katie
 * Cloister: ** n. covered walk having an open arcade or colonnade; ""For aye to be in shady cloister mewed.." (page 11 line 73) Alexa
 * Austerity**: n. T o remain or stay on in a place longer than is usual or expected; "For aye austerity and single life." (page 13 line 92) Caitlyn
 * perforce:** adv. of necessity- " But she perforce withholds the loved boy" (page 37 line 26) Holley
 * forsooth:** adv. in truth, certainly- "but that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon" (page 39 line 72) Holley

(isabel) **pelting:** paltry, insignificant (adj) - "hath every pelting river made so proud..." (page 41, line 94) (isabel) **simplicity:** innocence (noun) - "by the simplicity of Venus' doves.." (page 19, line 174)
 * shrewd;** adj. calculatingly mischievous "or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite" (page 37 ln 34) cece

**From //Cold Mountain//**
//Please put word in bold, part of speech, definition, sentence and page number, along with your name// //For example:// 1. **corncrib:** n. a ventilated structure for the storage of unhusked corn. "They were concerned over the corncrib." pg. 237 -Jenna 2. **yarrow:** n. A Eurasian plant of the daisy family, with feathery leaves and heads of small white, yellow, or pink aromatic flowers; Yarrow crushed between the hands smelling sharp as falling snow. page 47 -anne overly 3.**scorn: to** to disdain: to have a strong feeling of contempt, verb, "It seemed to scorn understanding" page 228 -Dempsey 4.**emulation:** effort or desire to equal or excel other; When three crows harried a hawk across the sky, Ruby expressed her great respect for the normally reviled crow, finding much worthy of emulation in their outlook on life. page 176 - Katie Cynkar 5. **mortar: n.** a receptacle of hard material, having a bowl-shaped cavity in which substances are reduced to powder with a pestle: There was a skin of ice in the roadway, and when they stepped forward their hooves gritted in it like pestle against mortar. Page 363- Holley 6. **contentious:** adj.causing, involving, or characterized by argument or controversy; "The contentious world but a fading memory." page 282 - Jeanne Ryan 8. **downtrodden**: adj. oppressed. "The shame he felt now to think of his zeal in sixty-one to go off and fight the downtrodden mill workers of the Federal army, men so ignorant it took many lessons to convince them to load their cartridges ball foremost." Page 276 -Cece Garner 9. **souse:** n. food steeped in pickle, especially pork trimmings. "They worked hard into near dark, rendering all fat into lard, washing out the intestines for chittlings, grinding and canning the trimmings into sausage, salting down the hams and middling the meat, soaking the blood out of the head to ready it for making souse." Page 319 -Leah 10. **pistolero:** n. a gunman or hired killer; I might train myself to be a pistolero of some sort. page 118 - Lilly Blomquist 11. **Potency**: n. The state or quality of being powerful or mighty; As Inman walked, he thought of a spell Swimmer had taught him, one of particular potency. Page 76-Alexa Urgo 12. **Jocular**: adj. given to, characterized by, intended for, or suited for joking or jesting. "the man seemed lightened in his mood by having removed the bull from his drinking water, jocular in fact." page 208 - Isabel Treichel 13. **Waggling**: v. to wobble or shake with short quick movements, esp. while in motion. "His course was necessarily waggling as he sought to avoid pikes and towns, but the way he found through the deep country, and widely spaced farms seemed safe enough." page 147 - Melissa Barrios 14. **antimacassar**(noun)- cloth placed over the back of a chair to keep it protected fronm getting dirty. "Cut up, it could make pillow covers, quilt tops, antimacassars for chair backs, any number of useful things(page 189) - Jennifer Harper 15.**seldom-**adverb, on only rare occasions, rarely, It was an opportunity life seldom offers, to rewrite even a shard of the past, and so she made the most of it.(page 418) Bridgid Bowman 16. **Spur**; n. a device with a small spike or a spiked wheel that is worn on a rider's heel and used for urging a horse forward. “Ada threw up a hand to fend him off and was cut across the wrist by a spur.” Page 32 –Caitlyn
 * scarp:** n. a cliff formed of faults and fractures of earth's crust; Between the gap and the mountain was wild and broken terrain of scarp and gorge. page 54 - Mrs. Jensen