Collection 5: The Story of an Hour

As you read Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," 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. forestall
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible
  2. significance
    the quality of being important
  3. abandon
    the trait of lacking restraint or control
  4. repression
    control by holding down
  5. subtle
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  6. elusive
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  7. tumultuous
    characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
  8. vacant
    void of thought or knowledge
  9. exalted
    of high moral or intellectual value
  10. impose
    inflict something unpleasant
  11. illumination
    a condition of spiritual awareness
  12. self-assertion
    the act of putting yourself forward in an aggressive manner
  13. elixir of life
    a hypothetical substance believed to maintain life indefinitely; once sought by alchemists
  14. composedly
    in a self-collected or self-possessed manner
  15. gripsack
    a small suitcase
Created on Thu Jul 17 16:22:01 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:21:51 EDT 2014)

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