Words from "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
meteorology,
apprenticeship,
crockery,
absorption,
tranquil,
viscous,
succor,
solicitous,
fervor,
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Vocabulary study list for Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" (Chapters 1-20).
importune,
dawdle,
elate,
barefaced,
consequential,
recommence,
complaisant,
miserly,
demean,
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Unusual words from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
engild,
blameful,
love-in-idleness,
yielder,
shrewishness,
doubler,
barky,
musk rose,
oxlip,
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Vocabulary study list for George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" (Chapters 1-7).
perforate,
alternatively,
unobtainable,
corrode,
figurine,
premonitory,
carping,
disseminate,
maniacal,
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Vocabulary study list for Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (Chapter 1).
milk thistle,
lightning rod,
ironmongery,
curlicue,
roast pork,
snuff out,
hex,
pictograph,
sizzle,
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Here are a few words that your students might find trick from the following poems by Langston Hughes: "April Rain Song," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Harlem," and "Theme for English B."
bosom,
crust,
defer,
dusky,
fester,
liquid,
loll,
syrupy,
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Vocabulary study list for Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" (Chapters 1-9).
gesticulate,
convulse,
coddle,
crumple,
dawdle,
rankle,
elate,
rummage,
dowdy,
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Vocabulary study list for Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried"
Vietnam War,
kiley,
believability,
Selective Service,
Selective Service System,
SSS,
draft,
President Franklin Roosevelt,
conscientious objector,
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