Collection 5: The Lowest Animal

As you read Mark Twain's "The Lowest Animal," 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. disposition
    your usual mood
  2. renounce
    turn away from; give up
  3. scientific method
    a systematic way of investigating to test a hypothesis
  4. postulate
    a proposition accepted as true to provide a logical basis
  5. caliber
    a degree or grade of excellence or worth
  6. quadruped
    an animal especially a mammal having four limbs
  7. larder
    a small storeroom for storing foods or wines
  8. anaconda
    a large boa of tropical South America
  9. transition
    the act of passing from one state or place to the next
  10. scruple
    hesitate on moral grounds
  11. appease
    make peace with
  12. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  13. harbor
    maintain, as a theory, thought, or feeling
  14. harem
    living quarters for wives in some Muslim households
  15. concubine
    a woman who cohabits with an important man
  16. atrocious
    shockingly brutal or cruel
  17. King John
    youngest son of Henry II
  18. zealot
    a fervent and even militant proponent of something
  19. heretic
    a person whose religious beliefs conflict with church dogma
  20. Richard I
    son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199
  21. Mahomet
    the Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah (570-632)
  22. Mary I
    daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
  23. dispute
    a disagreement or argument about something important
  24. incapable
    not having the temperament or inclination for
  25. chaos
    a state of extreme confusion and disorder
Created on Thu Jul 17 15:48:40 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:21:34 EDT 2014)

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