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Vocabulary, Ch. 6-10:  I, Juan de Pareja


Complete the missing definitions. 
Circle or highlight the prepositional phrase in each example. (2 have none.)
Use each word in a sentence.  Minimum sentence length is ten words.
Detailed directions 

 

1.  lament (noun):  ____________________________________________

p. 70:  When they demanded a third song, she sang a slow, deep lament, intense and full of suffering.

2.  constrict (________): to make narrower by squeezing or drawing together tightly

p. 74:  Like poor Miri, my heart constricted with fear at the thought.

3.  serenity (_____): ___________________________________________

p. 77:  I set out joyously, for church gave me great serenity and strength of spirit.

4. delineate (_____):  to sketch the outline of a picture, or to outline an idea in words

p. 88:  I had soon decided that until I could manage the outlines of objects, delineate their shapes and their positions in space, there was no point in trying to paint.

5.  vulgarity (noun):  ______________________________________________

p. 92:  I would have disliked that ... man because of his loud voice and his frequent vulgarity, were it not that he was completely devoted to Master.

6.  vivacious (adjective):  ____________________________________________

p. 99:  I convinced myself that Juan Bautista was really in love with our vivacious Paquita.

7. dismay (noun):  a sudden loss of courage or confidence in the face of trouble

p. 99:  I saw her little gasp of surprise, then an expression of joy, and immediately one of dismay.

8.  meticulous (adjective): _____________________________________________

p. 114:  For some time I resented the meticulous way Master painted these deformed and pathetic beings.

9.  compassionate (_______):  sympathetic, sharing the suffering of another person.

p. 108:  ... I could not allow him to exclude himself from tender and compassionate people ....

10.  preoccupation (noun): _______________________________________________

p. 117:  He did not intend any rudeness ... It showed the young man’s ignorance, or perhaps merely his preoccupation.


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