Unit 6: Vocabulary from Readings 1

This list covers "To a Mouse," "The Tyger," "London," "The World Is Too Much with Us," "Kubla Khan," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
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  1. dominion
    control or power through legal authority
    I’m truly sorry man’s dominion
    Has broken Nature’s social union
  2. ensue
    take place or happen afterward or as a result
    An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin’,
    Baith snell an’ keen!
  3. aspire
    have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
    On what wings dare he aspire?
    What the hand dare seize the fire?
  4. sinew
    a band of tissue connecting a muscle to its bony attachment
    And what shoulder, & what art,
    Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
  5. manacle
    shackle that can be locked around the wrist
    In every cry of every Man,
    In every Infant’s cry of fear,
    In every voice, in every ban,
    The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
  6. hapless
    unfortunate and deserving pity
    How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry
    Every blackning Church appalls,
    And the hapless Soldier’s sigh
    Runs in blood down Palace walls.
  7. blight
    cause to suffer devastation
    But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
    How the youthful Harlot’s curse
    Blasts the new-born Infant’s tear,
    And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
  8. sordid
    morally degraded
    We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
  9. cavern
    a large cave or a large chamber in a cave
    In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.
  10. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
    But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
    Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
  11. meander
    move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
    Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
    Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
    Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
    And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean
  12. tumult
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
    Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
    Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
    Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
    And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean
  13. sprite
    a small, mythological creature with wings and magical powers
    A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!
    And still it neared and neared:
    As if it dodged a water sprite,
    It plunged and tacked and veered.
  14. agape
    with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe
    With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
    Agape they heard me call
  15. fleck
    make a spot or mark onto
    And straight the Sun was flecked with bars,
    (Heaven’s Mother send us grace!)
    As if through a dungeon grate he peered
    With broad and burning face.
  16. wan
    lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
    And to and fro, and in and out,
    The wan stars danced between.
  17. discern
    perceive, recognize, or detect
    But ere my living life returned,
    I heard and in my soul discerned
    Two voices in the air.
  18. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
    For slow and slow that ship will go,
    When the Mariner’s trance is abated.
Created on Tue Mar 09 09:56:47 EST 2021 (updated Tue Mar 16 14:16:42 EDT 2021)

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