Vocabulary+and+Facts+about+Dickens

Emily Brands Danielle Chaykowsky Nicholas DiFeo Andrew Golden Shannon Schlegel

List vocabulary from the novel with definitions and parts of speech. You must choose one word out of 15 chapters. Therefore, you must have 15 vocabulary words. Your classmates will be responsible for this vocabulary. Please shorten the definition to its simplest meaning. Write the page number where you found the word and the sentence it was used in.

Provide facts and interesting information about Charles Dickens and his life. This information should be extensive. About Charles Dickens Page 17, chapter 3 Definition: pains caused by rheumatism, such as aches and pains caused by arthritis Sentence: “You’ve been lying out on the meshes, and they’re dreadful aguish. ** Rheumatic **, too.”
 * __ Rheumatic __**

Page 71, Chapter 10 Part of Speech: adjective Definition: well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression. Sentence: “The ** felicitous ** idea occurred to me a morning or two later when I woke that the best step I could take towards making myself uncommon was to get out of Biddy everything she knew.”
 * __ Felicitous __**

**__ Supposititious __** Page 131, chapter 17 Part of speech: adjective Definition: based mostly on suspicion rather than adequate evidence Sentence: “This penalty of being jiggered was a favourite ** supposititious ** case of his.”

Page 134, Chapter 18 Part of Speech: adjective Definition: Causing repugnance; detestable; loathsome; // an abhorrent deed. // Sentence: “He gloated over every ** abhorrent ** adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the inquest.”
 * __ Abhorrent __**

Page 160, chapter 19 Part of speech: noun Definition: a reading Sentence: “Here we found gentleman with one eye, in a velveteen suit and knee breeches, who wiped his nose with his sleeve on being interrupted in the ** perusal ** of the newspaper.”
 * __ Perusal __**

**__ Supplicant __** Page 166, chapter 20 Part of speech: noun Definition: a petitioner Sentence: “My guardian threw his ** supplicant ** off with extreme indifference, and left him dancing on the pavement as if it were red-hot.” Page 179, chapter 22 Part of speech: adjective Definition: demanding or requiring vigorous exertion Sentence: I only know that u found myself, with a perseverance worthy of a much better cause, making the most ** strenuous ** exertions to compress it within those limits. Page 188, chapter 23 Part of speech: noun Definition: belonging or pertaining to the common people Sentence: "Be that as it may, he had directed Mrs. Pocket to be brought up from her cradle as one who in the nature of things must marry a title, and who was to be guarded from the acquisition of ** plebeian ** domestic knowledge." Page 254, chapter 31 Part of speech: adjective Definition: close to something without actually touching Sentence: “It was likewise to be noted of this majestic spirit that whereas it always appeared with an air of having been out a long time and walked an immense distance, it perceptibly came from a closely ** contiguous ** wall.” Page 282, Chapter 35 Part of Speech: adjective Definition: Feeling self importance. The act of feeling vainglory. Sentence: “My thoughts were further distracted by the excessive pride of Mr. and Mrs. Hubble, who were surpassingly conceited and ** vainglorious ** in being members of so distinguished a procession.”
 * __ Strenuous __**
 * __ Plebeian __**
 * __ Contiguous __**
 * __ Vainglorious __**

Page 322, chapter 39 Part of speech: noun Definition: payment in return for something: payment for a damage or loss Sentence: "And then, dear boy, it was a ** recompense ** to me, look'ee here, to know in secret that I was making a gentleman.** " **
 * __ Recompense __**

Page 386, chapter 42 Part of speech: noun Definition: a direct or exact opposite Sentence: “But he presently presented himself under worthier circumstances; for, the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance- on account of the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice of his daughter’s heart, but purposely but purposely falling upon the subject of a flour sack, out of the first-floor window- summoned a sententious enchanter, and he, coming up from the ** antipodes ** rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high- crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.” Page 441, chapter 54 Part of speech: adjective Definition: feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom Sentence: “But for your face, I should think you were a little ** despondent **,” said I. Page 454, chapter 55 Part of speech: noun Definition: the introductory part of a speech Sentence: “There was something charmingly cordial and engaging in the manner in which, after saying, ‘Now Handel,’ as if it were the grave beginning of a portentous business ** exordium **, he had suddenly given up that tone, stretched out his honest hand, and spoken like a schoolboy.”
 * __ Antipodes __**
 * __ Despondent __**
 * __ Exordium __**

Page 470, Chapter 57 Part of Speech: adjective Definition: Describing something as correctly defined metaphorically or literally. Sentence: “Occasionally, he was tripped up by some ** orthographical ** stumbling-block, but on the whole he got on very well indeed, and when he had signed is name, and had removed a finishing blot from the paper to the crown of his head with his two forefingers, he got up and hovered about the table, trying the effect of his performance from various points of view as it lays there, with unbound satisfaction.”
 * __ Orthographical __**