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A high school required reading book, LORD JIM written by Joseph Conrad, gives the student the opportunity to learn SAT-College Prep vocabulary in context. We have selected 271 words (233 English words, **38 words/expressions in French with literal/general translations; accents are not present) to encourage study.

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LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad - 271 words in order of appearance, as indicated:

One: ship-chandler, jollity, incognito, fitful, ponderously, tumult, contemptible

Two: tractable, gale, afflicted, renegade, luminous, smoulder

Three: undulation, keel, deference, imperceptible, surreptitious

Four: impassible, assessor, bulkhead, perdition, punkahs, eddy, volition, audibly, languid

Five: malicious, strife, indignation, tyrannical, arduous, intrepid, quiver, callous, solicitation, benevolent, infernal, notorious, sordid, abscond, lackadaisical, sovereign, ardently, exorcism, scrutinizing, stealthy, lurid

Six: exasperating, contemptuous, complacent, taffrail, breech, spatula, condescend, cryptic, infernal, provocation, impudence, abjectly, ponderous, susceptibilities, intonation, trepidation, expostulate, volubility, appeasement, refutation, unpropitious, allude, unabashed

Seven: boisterously, acrimoniously, callousness, contemptuous, quaver, magnitude, languid, beatitude, imminent, clamorous, rubicund

Eight: lanyard, circumvented, stealthily, propitiatory, venomously

Nine: shirk, tenebrous, surmise, stanchion, jostle, grimace, rancor, verandah, impale

Ten: furtive, palpitate, mongrel, jargon, remonstrating, abhorrent, pervade, scintillate, zenith, palaver

Eleven---Fifteen(** in Chapters 12 and 13 all French vocabulary and expressions are translated BELOW): propagate, oppressive, uncanny, expound, remorse, placid, dormant, imperturbable, elucidate, ungainly, ponderous, impetuously, lofty, impel, retribution, vestige, vexation, dismally, insinuate, quay, unerringly, furtive

Sixteen---Twenty: elixir, monsoon, lamentation, animosity, indomitable, taciturn, impalpable, suffuse, inanition, imperishable, destitute, incessant, perfunctory futility, dyspepsia, benevolently, malevolent, catacomb, entomologist, privation, crepuscular, impalpable, flaxen, elusive, reverberation

Twenty-one---Twenty-five: aberration, diffusion, glower, pestilence, complacent, valise, remorseful, effusive, placid, chasm, sinister, eloquent, benevolent, plunder

Twenty-six---Thirty: ponderous, sinuosity, impregnable, vagabond, brooding, sagacious, taciturn, sentient, renunciation, audacity, felicitous, denunciation, tremulous

Thirty-one---Thirty-five: repentance, irretrievably, alacrity, contemptuously, propound, stalwart, imperceptible, inexpugnable, collusion, implacable, abjectness, entreat, extortionate, magnanimous, lofty, fecund, lank

Thirty-six---Forty: impeccable, foolscap, strife, malicious, exaltation, perturbation, conjecture, ruffian, peculating, abscond, spectre, arduously, mulatto, fusillade, dilapidated, dole, edifice, renown

Forty-one---Forty-five: flout, infernal, debilitated, jubilating, rapacious, insoluble, thwarted, remonstrate, dismal, boisterously, incontinently, deferential, consternation, fronds, totter, inscrutable

**Twelve: (French words can not include the proper accents!) merci: thanks, thank you
cassis a l'eau: black current/blackberry beverage
impossible de comprendre - vous concevez: impossible to understand - you imagine/figure
autour de ce mort: around/surrounding this death
Parbleu! (Exclamation) - good grief! Heavens! My word!
en toute hate: in all haste, hurriedly
exigeait les plus grands managements; requiring genuine/real organization/management
soutane: cassock (priestly garb)
sans doute: without a doubt, without fail, certainly
en votre qualite de marin: in your job/stage as a sailor
naturellement: of course, naturally
Dieu merci: Thanks be to God; Thank goodness!
on fait ce qu'on peut: One does what one can
s'en va: takes off; leaves; departs
Ah! C'est bien ca. Merci: Oh! That's it then, that's it exactly. Thanks.
pour ouvrir l'oeil: to/in order to open one's eye; to be aware
drole de trouvaille: an odd/funny/strange finding
tout ce monde: all these people, this whole world
marins de l'Etat: sailors of the State, national sailors, navy
cet interessant cadavre: this interesting corpse/cadaver
de sorte que: so that, in the manner/way of
dans cet episode de ma vie: in this chapter/section/part of my life

**Thirteen: Mon Dieu; My God
victorieuse: victorious
tres coquet: very flirty; very stylish
triste ville: sad/dull/lackluster town
au juste: just right; exactly; fairly
s'est enfui avec les autres: fled/took off with the others
roule ma bosse: "knock about the world", "hang around after lots of travel"
Allez!: Get going! Go on!
le metier veut ca: the job requires/needs/wants that/that
bien entendu: "well heard"=of course, well/easily understood
un trac epouvantable: an incredible, overwhelming fear
que diable? what the devil? what the heck?
un derangement d'estomac: an upset stomach
l'homme est ne poltron: the man was born a coward
voila: here you go! here it is! Also from Nineteen: table d'hote: "dining"

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90 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading, Books A to H: 1984 Absolutely Normal Chaos All Quiet on the Western Front Angela's Ashes Animal Farm A Tale of Two Cities A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Awakening The Bean Trees Beowulf Black Boy Call of the Wild Canterbury Tales Catcher in the Rye The Chocolate Wars Cold Mountain The Crucible Cry, The Beloved Country Da Vinci Code David Copperfield Death of a Salesman Diary of Anne Frank Dogs Don't Tell Jokes The Double Helix Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Emma Ethan Frome Fahrenheit 451 Frankenstein Gifted Hands The Glass Menagerie The Grapes of Wrath Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Guests Gulliver's Travels Harry Potter & The Sorcerer's Stone Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix Holes The House of the Spirits The House on Mango Street Huckleberry Finn The Human Comedy

90 Recommended High School/Junior High Reading, Books I to Z: I Heard The Owl Call My Name I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Invisible Man Jane Eyre Johnny Got His Gun Johnny Tremain The Joy Luck Club Kidnapped Lord Jim Lord of the Flies Macbeth Maggie's American Dream Of Mice and Men Moby Dick No-No Boy Not Without My Daughter Old Yeller Of Human Bondage The Once & Future King One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Our Town A Passage to India Pigs in Heaven Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man A Prayer for Owen Meany Pride and Prejudice The Prince and the Pauper Red Badge of Courage The Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Slaughterhouse Five Something Wicked This Way Comes A Streetcar Named Desire The Street The Sun Also Rises The Taming of the Shrew To Kill a Mocking Bird The Things They Carried Tuesdays wih Morrie Treasure Island Ulysses The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Warriors Don't Cry When I Was Puerto Rican White Fang Wuthering Heights

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