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Instructions

Find 2 words that you think are significant to understanding the story. Put your initials in front, write the word, and then write down the sentence in which the quote appears, followed by the correct citation format. I have put down an example.

Finally, on the second line, provide everyone with the definition. Use the Merriam-Webster dictionary online, www.m-w.com, which has an audio link to the word, to hear its pronunciation. If there are more than one possible definitions, choose the one that is most appropriate to the context.

Week FIVE: 1.LK: Parasol: a parasol lighter than a butterflys wing, and yet so constructed that it opens by itself like a flower." (Evslin 138) def umbrella 2.: LK: Keen: " Blinded so that their noses would grow more keen" (Evslin 137) def: greif

= Week 4 - Greek Myths III = 1. PS: dithyramb : DEF. A passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing. "Arion had invented a song praise, called the dithyramb." 2. P.S: unthrifty DEF. Not thrifty; profuse. "how dare you ride so unthriftly"

1. IC: Beguile: "Women and girls alike wore topless dresses, gems in their hair, and a most beguiling scent made by slaves..." (Evslin 136) Def: to lead by deception

2. IC: Prate : "Love . . . my serving maids prate of it, my daughters frisk with the idea." (Evlins 138) Def: to talk long and idly

3 BB Artificer 'Minos, delighted, immediately appointed Daedulus Court **Artificer'** (Evslin 136) Def: A skilled caftsman (MW)

4 BB Jet 'It was dazzeling......it's long sharp horns seemed to be made out of **jet.** (Evslin 138) Def: A compact velet-black coal (MW)

5 BLW：unthriftily: How dare you ride so unthriftily in your sun-chariot scattering golden sheaves of light on rich and poor alike def:sometimes in words that have a meaning that merely negates that of the base word and are thereby distinguished from words that prefix //in// 6 BLW:marble: Great unhewn blocks of marble stood about. def:limestone that is more or less crystallized by metamorphism, that ranges from granular to compact in texture, that is capable of taking a high polish, and that is used especially in architecture and sculpture

7. HH: Coax - The child was coaxing his parents by trying to get a new toy. Def: to influence by gentle urging, special attention, or flattering.

8. HH: vexation - the women was very vexed by the child when he kept singing the song over and over again. Def: annoyance or irritation.

9 BB Sheaves 'How dare you ride so unthriftily in your sun-cariot scattering golden **sheaves** of light on right annd poor alike.........' (Evslin 191) Def: A quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together (MW)

10 BB Wastrel 'This is an evil thing, oh **wastrel** god.........' (Evslin 192) Def: One who expends resources foolishly and self-indulgently (MW)

11 LCW: unthriftily; "how dare you ride so unthriftily in your sun-chariot"(Evslin 192) Def; uncareful management especially of money. (MW) 1 2LCW: walnut "he touched the touched them with only the food to see what would happen. Meat```apples ````walnuts"(Evlisn 194) Def; a moderate reddish brown(mw)

=__**Week 3 - More Greek Myths**__=

1: LK: Grotto: "When Thetis understood it was a baby she had caught, she made a pet of him in her **grotto.** def: a natural or artificial cave

2:LK: Jeering: " All crows were white then and were excellent chaperons; they had sharp eyes and **jeering** voices." Def: Rude remarks, typically in a loud voice

3: IC: Caprice: " An aptitude for admiring our power, being puzzled by our riddles and amazed by our caprice." (Evslin 56) Def: a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action

4: IC: Parceled : "But really - all the realms and powers seem to have been parceled out." (Evslin 46) Def : to divide into parts

5：BLW：ignorance: You have caused the race of man to appear on earth, but you keeo hime in ignorance and darkness. Def:lack of knowledge, education, or awareness 6:splendid: If the ox is so rich, the gift inside must be even more splendid-for that is the way od gift. Def**:** shining, brilliant

7:LCW : persuades;"and he is so framed that he wii remain happy unless someone **persuades** him at is unhappy." Def: to move by argument, entreaty, or expostulation to a belief, position, or course of action

8: LCW: abide" which gods also must abide" Def; to wait for, to accept without objection

9 BB Foreboding: 'It was foreboding, the final spite.' Evslin 62 An omen, especially for coming evil

10 BB Cinder 'I'll turn the miserable ball of earth into a cinder' Evslin 58 Ashes/ partly burning 11 BB Slavish '.....with her broken murmurs and slvish eyes.' Evslin 76 Of or characteristic of a slave (MW) 12 BB Litigants 'They sat there, listening, eyes blinded with tears, deaf to litigants.' One engaged in a lawsuit (MW) HH eagerness- Sharp. The women was a very eagerness when she was speaking in class. HH multitude- The state of being many. She was very multitude in her talents. 13 BLW：hawk: And it wasn't until the sun hawks gently let down the carpet in front of the throne that he began to think that this dream might be very real. Def:any of numerous diurnal birds of prey belonging to a suborder (Falcones of the order Falconiformes) and including all the smaller members of this group; 14BLW: tame: And not only the tame animals but the wild ones too--the shy deer, and wolves, and bears. Def:reduced from a state of native wildness especially so as to be tractable and useful to humans

15 LCW：appallingly- "Taller than any man, and **appallingly** beautiful (Evslin 67)." Def: causing dismay or horror （MW) 16LCW：pagan- "This **pagan** religion has influenced all the religions that came after (Evslin x)". Def: a follower of a polytheistic religion（MW)

17 IC : aptitude - " An aptitude for admiring our power, being puzzled by our riddles and amazed by our caprice." (Evslin 56) Def: a natural ability (MW)

18 IC : beset - " They were ills that beset mankind :" (Evslin 62) Def: to set upon

19. JH: vaunting-"a __vaunting__ pride that needs little sustenance to make it swell to giant size." def- to call attention to, boast

20. JH: sustenance-"a vaunting pride that needs little __sustenance__ to make it swell to giant size." def- means of support __Week 2 - Greek Myths__

1. KY: quarrel: "When hero confronts monster in these myths it is apt to be a family **quarrel**" (Evslin ix). Def: " a ground of dispute or complaint (MW)."

2.LK:Intriguers: "She was the queen of **intriguers** and always found it easy to outwit Zues, who was busy with many things"(Evslin ix.) Def. "A secret scheme"

3.LK: Distaff: "You have boasted that you can spin and weave better than I- than I, who invented the loom, the **distaff**, and the spindle." (Evslin ix.) Def. "A tool used in spinning"

4. IC: Lament : " And a great wailing and lamentation arose as the people lifted their faces to Olympus and prayed for Zeus to help them." (Evslin pg25) Def. "intransitive verb** : ** to mourn aloud ** : ** [|wail] "

5. IC: Curvetted : "They curvetted in the air and plunged into the hole again." (Evslin pg 23) Def: "noun: **:** a prancing leap of a horse in which the hind legs are raised just before the forelegs touch the groun

6 BB: Counterpane: 'And, remembering what Athene had said before, she spun a **counterpane** for their bed.' (Evslin 12) Def: A bedspread or bed cover

6 BB: Thwarting 'She hated Ares and took great pleasure in **thwarting** him on the battlefield.' (Evslin 9) Def: To oppose

8. jh: infidelities- "he angered her by his infidelities" def- the action or state of being unfaithful to a spouse or othersexual partner 9. jh: sternly- "so sternly beautiful that Arachne new she must be a goddess" def- serious and unrelenting, esp. inthe assertion of authority and exercise of discipline

10 LCW：suspicions-"she enraged him with her **suspicions."** (Evslin 6) Def: a state of mental uneasiness and uncertainty(MW) 11 LCW： empire-"after Cronos was deposed, the three sons threw dice for his **empire**."(Evslin 15) Def: of, relating to, or characteristic of a style (as of clothing or furniture) popular in early 19th century France(MW)

=__**Week 1 - Brave New World**__=

example:

1. KY: conditioning - "The Central London Hatchery and **Conditioning** Centre (Huxley 1)." Def: **"**a simple form of learning involving the formation, strengthening, or weakening of an association between a stimulus and a response (MW)."

2. KY: mesa - "The **mesa** was like a ship becalmed in a strait of lion-coloured dust (Huxley 107)." Def: "an isolated relatively flat-topped natural elevation usually more extensive than a butte and less extensive than a plateau (MW)."

Def-bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent.
 * 1) JH Soma- “people said oh him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma” def-an intoxicating drink prepared from a plant and used in Vedic ritual, believed to be the drink of the gods.
 * 2) JH Viviparous- “try to realize what it was like to have a viviparous mother”

5. CG: Hatchery- "A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON **HATCHERY** AND CONDITIONING CENTRE. " (Huxley 3) Def: "A place for hatching eggs (as of birds or fish) (MW)."

6. CG: Hypnopaedia - "The principal of sleep teaching, or **hypnopaedia**, hade been discovered." (Huxley 25) def: "Isntruction of a sleeping person especially by means of recorded lessons - called also sleep-learning, sleep-teaching. (MW)"

7. DX: Abnormalities-"How the eggs which it contained were inspected for **abnormalities**, counted and transferred to a porous receptaclr."(Huxley 5) Def:"A quality or state of being abnormal."（MW）

8.DX: Incubators-"How the fertilized ova went back to the **incubators**; where the Alphas and Betas remained until definitely bottled." (Huxley 6) Def: " An apparatus by which eggs are hatched artificially."(MW)

9. IR: Moccasins-" They came on without a word,running quietly in their deerskin **moccasins**." (Huxley 109)

10.IR: Mescal-"Pope used to come often.He said the stuff in the gourd was called **mescal;** but linda said it ought to be called //soma//; only it made you feel ill afterwards.

11.LK:Ovary-"From the same **Ovary** and with the gametes of the same male to manufacture as many batches of identical twins as possible"(Huxley 8)

12.LK: Duly-" Mr.Foster **duly** told him." (Huxley 12)

13：JD:Bunk: "You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk."(Huxley ch.3) Def: a message that seems to convey a fake meaning.

14:JD:Dystopia: The world in the story seems to be a utopia, but ist is actually a dystopia. Def: A society characterized by human misery, as squalor, disense and over crowding.

15. OF: Muddling- "Then finally muddling it all up, poking her long spindle among the woven clouds, and mixing them and stirring up a dark strange picture- the future of man. Def: to mix up in a confused or bungling manner, jumble

16. Dropsical: "Swollen and dropsical with pride, building something so loathsome he had to look away while he was making it." Def: of like or affected with dropsy

17. Dropsy Def: an abnormal collection of water in a body tissue