from Act II Scene ii of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"
Full text is available <a href="http://bit.ly/w4chui">here</a>.
yonder,
arise,
grief,
entreat,
sphere,
glorious,
mortal,
gaze,
retain,
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by the cavalier poet Richard Lovelace (1618?1657)
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unconfined,
hover,
grate,
fetter,
liberty,
allay,
bound,
grief,
steep,
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Learn these 68 words from the short story by Edgar Allen Poe.
Full text is available <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2148/2148-h/2148-h.htm#2H_4_0010">here</a>.
cask,
injury,
venture,
insult,
vow,
revenge,
threat,
avenge,
preclude,
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Learn these 62 words from the classic short story by Guy de Maupassant.
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blunder,
destiny,
distinguished,
adorn,
caste,
grace,
fortune,
native,
elegance,
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Vocabulary from Chapter 1 of "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens.
implacable,
weather,
retire,
waddle,
lizard,
chimney,
mourning,
imagine,
mire,
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You can read this famous scene in Chapter Two of "Oliver Twist" (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/730/730-h/730-h.htm).
gruel,
festive,
occasion,
rejoice,
eager,
devour,
assiduously,
appetite,
companion,
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from Shakespeare's "Macbeth" -- Act II Scene 1
handle,
clutch,
fatal,
vision,
creation,
oppressed,
palpable,
instrument,
wicked,
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For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland,
from being a burden on their parents or country,
and for making them beneficial to the publick.
modest,
burden,
beneficial,
melancholy,
importune,
livelihood,
sustenance,
native,
prodigious,
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