Unit 5: Selection Vocabulary 1

The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.

The Fox replied, "Indeed, I should have thanked you fervently if your deeds had been as good as your words, and if your hands had not been traitors to your speech."

A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.

They then said in derision: "If you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

Once upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily.

The anguish I always feel when she’s in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained.

The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games.

Her chances of being chosen were so remote that I’d not even bothered worrying about her.

I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps.

What accounts for the success of “The Hunger Games”? The obvious answer, of course, is the combination of the irresistible Jennifer Lawrence and Hollywood special effects with a rollicking good story.

Like imperial Rome, the country of “The Hunger Games” is a once-free society now dominated by a corrupt and rapacious capital city.

Like ancient gladiators, the participants are doomed but idolized.

Myths work because their themes are of abiding interest, and “The Hunger Games” is no exception.

Myths work because their themes are of abiding interest, and “The Hunger Games” is no exception.

If ours tend to test mental rather than physical stamina (college entrance exams are more common than boot camps), they remain daunting and demanding in their own way—which perhaps explains why the life-or-death stakes of “The Hunger Games” strike such a deep chord among our decidedly nonclassical teens.

But when your king, this same Aegeus who stands before me now, saw how everybody ran after him and praised his valor, he was filled with envy and laid plans to kill him.

Whether he caused armed men to waylay him on the road to Thebes, or whether as some say he sent him against a certain wild bull of your country to be slain by that beast, I know not; but you cannot deny that the young man's life was taken from him through the plotting of this Aegeus.

Athens has robbed me of my dearest treasure, a treasure that can never be restored to me; so, in return, I require from Athens, as tribute, that possession which is the dearest and most precious to her people; and it shall be destroyed cruelly as my son was destroyed.

Athens has robbed me of my dearest treasure, a treasure that can never be restored to me; so, in return, I require from Athens, as tribute, that possession which is the dearest and most precious to her people; and it shall be destroyed cruelly as my son was destroyed.

At last, late in the day, they heard a bellowing, low and faint as though far away.

The Minotaur fell upon the ground, roaring and groaning and beating wildly about with his horned head and his hoof-like fists; but Theseus nimbly ran up to him and thrust the sword into his heart, and was away again before the beast could harm him.