Vocabulary Pre Reading

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Literature Grade 11: _______________

The Masque of Red Death

Focus on Vocabulary

A. Delirious

1. For days I was delirious with fever and exhaustion, near to death I was told

2. I was delirious with confidence. I was ecstatic for its release.

3. She's delirious with rage, thinks Salim, but Nadia somehow thinks it's funny,

4. Out of breath, and nearly delirious, I watched as the train's machinery rocked slowly into gear

1- What is the cause of being delirious for every sentence above?

1. __________

2. __________

3. __________

4. __________

2- Which sentence above might have a positive connotation of delirious? Can you figure

out its meaning? _______________________________________________________

3- Based on your investigation of the above table, with which preposition delirious collocates?

What is its part of speech? What is the noun of delirious?

______________________________________________ ______________

B. Voluptuous

1. The sky was deep blue and stretched to far, far yonder, and was full of enchanting voluptuous clouds.

2. Silvia was a beauty, with glossy black hair and a voluptuous figure.

3. The markets were voluptuous in

both scent and appearance: sweet-smelling red apples



4- The word voluptuous collocates with which noun according to each of the above sentences?

_____________________________

5- What is the difference in the meaning of the word in sentences 1 and 2 ?

________________________________________________________________________

6- What can you derive as a definition of the word, considering its context?

________________________________________________________________________

C. Dominions

7- What word can you think of that is closely related to dominions? Apply the word part analysis

and break up the word into its constituents. ____________________________

1. A homeopathic physician - homeopadiy was just entering the dominions

of our civilization

2. in the dead center of Spain, far from the ports where your ships set sail to the distant dominions

which are your wealth?

3. Thus, I urge thee to protect Pan's dominions

and reputations wherever thou mightst go.

8- If you had to replace the word with another what would it be? Would all the sentence s above

bear the same word replacement or is there at least one sentence in which the word

dominions is different than the o thers?

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D. Dauntless

1. The wildcat stare, dauntless behind the

glasses, hard and piercing like the point of an auger.

2. Nick, who had always felt himself too guarded by nature, envied Simon for his dauntless sense of

adventure

9- In each sentence above, the bold-faced word modifies what kind of noun?

_____________________

10- Based on the context clue, what do you think dauntless means?

_________________________



E. Sagacious

1. These noble, sagacious guardians of science and culture are known as " editon.'

2. I could not get a hold of my bearings the moment I encountered his perfectly sagacious gaze.

3. He would say the sagacious attitude is one of distance and indifference.

11- Sentences 2 and 3 differ from sentence 1 in that sagacious in 1 modifies a(n) __________ noun.

12- Examine the three sentences and focus on the connotation of the word in each. Is there any

difference in the connotation in each sentence? ___________________________________

F. Contagion

1. The extent of the contagion had to be immediately understood, with a

containment strategy summarily put into full effect 2. with our crossing east over Blanchard's Plain, contagion and death followed with us.

3. Then a contagion swept the world. Economic depression was

bad, but a plague was a true

4. the air around them will throb with a contagion of giggling.

13- Based on your examination of the word in the above sentences, which sentence holds a positive

connotation of the word contagion? ________________ . What do you think is the meaning of

contagion in that particular sentence? ___________________________________________

14- In sentences 2 and 3 above, what verb does the bold-faced word collocates?

___________________________

15- In which sentence is contagion personified? ________

16- What is the adjective of the word? ____________. What do you think is the meaning of

contagion? _______________________________________

G. Grotesque

1. But Carlos had seen too many women die in inhuman ways, onegrotesque example only three

months ago.

2. It holds a grotesque mask with bulging eyes,

tusks jutting out, and a long red tongue.

3. They inflated above me like a grotesque parachute.

4. The Traders were about to make a grotesque mistake, one that couldnever be undone.

17- If you could replace the word grotesque with any word would it be the same in all 4 sentences?

If not, what would you replace the word with in each sentence? 1. __________ 2. _______________

3. _____________________ 4. ________________

18- List the noun that the bold-face word modifies in each sentence



H. tangible

1. Whatever tangible knowledge he had of his father came to him at second hand

2. You're bound to the true reality now, my love. To the tangible. To the eternal.

3. showing it is older than the patent, would that be what you call more tangible evidence?

19- What is the part of speech of the bold -faced word in sentences 1 and 3? ______ What is it

part of speech in 2? _______

20- What kind of noun does the word modify in sentences 1 and 3 ? _________________

21- What do you think is the meaning of the word tangible in each sentence?

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