Collection 5: The Jungle

As you read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 5: To Build a Fire, The Jungle, Food Product Design, The Lowest Animal, Genesis of the Tenement, The Story of an Hour, The Fish
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  1. oblige
    force somebody to do something
  2. Dante Alighieri
    an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through Hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)
  3. Emile Zola
    French novelist and critic; defender of Dreyfus (1840-1902)
  4. ingenious
    showing inventiveness and skill
  5. tuberculosis
    infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of bacilli
  6. ostensibly
    from appearances alone
  7. affliction
    a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health
  8. carcass
    the dead body of an animal
  9. inferno
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
  10. skeptical
    marked by or given to doubt
  11. swindle
    the act of cheating by some fraudulent scheme
  12. rheumatism
    any painful disorder of the joints or muscles
  13. pelt
    the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  14. convenience
    the state of being suitable or opportune
  15. vat
    a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids
Created on Thu Jul 17 15:24:01 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:21:15 EDT 2014)

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