Count of Monte Cristo Vocabulary Week 4

1. Count of Monte Cristo Vocabulary Week 4

2. 1. WOD – Subjugated POS – (v) MOD – “’I don’t know how to write,’ said Caderousse. ‘You’re lying; take this pen and write!’ Caderousse, subjugated by that superior power, sat down and wrote…” Prediction – Definition – Under domination or control

3. 2. WOD – Reverie POS – (n) MOD – “…the count…stood still for a few moments as though absorbed in some profound meditation. Then, passing his hand over his forehead as though to brush away his reverie, he went over to the gong and struck it twice.” Prediction – Definition – A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; a daydream

4. 3. WOD – Calamity POS – (n) MOD – “Morcerf was so overwhelmed, so trembling before that immense and unexpected calamity, that he was hardly able to stammer a few words to his colleagues while staring at them with bewildered eyes.” Prediction – Definition – An event causing great damage or distress; a disaster

5. 4. WOD – Obscure POS – (adj) MOD – “’I was speaking with a certain person about your father’s past and I mentioned that the source of his fortune had always remained obscure.’” Prediction – Definition – Unknown; uncertain

6. 5. WOD – Affable POS – (adj) MOD – “The count felt that a storm was about to break and…although he was talking to Maximilien with his most affable expression, he knew what to expect and prepared himself for the worst.” Prediction – Definition – Friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to

7. Journal Topics 2. When do you daydream and get lost in your reveries? Describe one such experience as well as your dreamy thoughts. 3. Describe a calamity you have either experienced or one that you viewed on the news. What made it so disastrous? 4. List some obscure facts that you know.

8. 6. WOD – Pardon POS – (n) MOD – “‘You can’t believe that, after being publicly insulted by a young man who would boast of my pardon as he would of a victory, I could still go on living.’” Prediction – Definition – The action of forgiving or being forgiven for an error or offense

9. 7. WOD – Imperceptible POS – (adj) MOD – “’I was hoping they would agree to change the weapons from pistols to swords. A pistol is blind.’ ‘And did you succeed?’ asked Monte Cristo with an almost imperceptible glimmer of hope in his eyes. ‘No-your skill in fencing is too well known.’” Prediction – Definition – Impossible to perceive

10. 8. WOD – Pittance POS – (n) MOD – “That money was meant to contribute to the happiness of the woman I loved; you will understand why, instead of offering her the millions I could now give her, I give her back only that pittance which has lain forgotten since the day I was separated from her.” Prediction – Definition – A very small or inadequate amount of money paid to someone as an allowance or wage

11. 9. WOD – Ardently POS – (adv) MOD – “He had recently begun to realize something which he had not dared believe before: that there was another Mercedes in the world, that he might once again be happy. He was gazing ardently into Haydee’s moist eyes when suddenly the door opened.” Prediction – Definition – Done in an enthusiastic or passionate way

12. 10. WOD – Ascendancy POS – (n) MOD – “Maximilien, subjugated by that prodigious ascendancy which Monte Cristo exercised over everyone around him, did not even try to resist.” Prediction – Definition – Occupation of a position of dominant power or influence

13. Journal Topics 6. Should Dantes pardon his enemies? Explain. 8. Do you receive or have you ever received a pittance from your parents? Are there chores attached to this allowance? Explain. 9. Describe something that you ardently completed, something you were passionate about.

14. 11. WOD – Obstinately POS – (adv) MOD – “The crowd flowed in and out of the salons like a tide of rubies, emeralds, opals and diamonds. As always, it was the oldest women who were the most elaborately ornamented and the ugliest who were the most obstinately set on showing themselves.” Prediction – Definition – Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or chosen course of action

15. 12. WOD – Hastened POS – (v) MOD – “Everyone hastened to withdraw, or rather to flee, for it was one of those situations in which it was better not even to try to give those commonplace consolations which make the presence of one’s friends so inopportune during a great catastrophe.” Prediction – Definition – Be quick to do something

16. 13. WOD – Procure POS – (v) MOD – “Here is the plan he had devised and which was responsible for the greater part of his feeling of security: he would get up at dawn, leave the hotel after scrupulously paying his bill, go into the forest and buy the hospitality of some peasant on the pretext that he was a painter. Then he would procure an axe and the costume of a woodsman and travel from forest to forest until he reached the nearest frontier, walking night, sleeping during day and approaching inhabited places only from time to time in order to buy food.” Prediction – Definition – Obtain (something)

17. 14. WOD – Apparition POS – (n) MOD – “The nurse had withdrawn only ten minutes before and Valentine was in the grip of her nightly fever. In the flickering light of the lamp on the mantelpiece, she suddenly saw the door to her library begin to open without making the slightest noise. In any other circumstances, she would have seized the bell cord and rung for help, but nothing surprised her in her present condition. She was aware that all the visions surrounding her were only the products of delirium…Due to her fever, Valentine was too familiar with this sort of apparition to be frightened by it…” Prediction – Definition – A ghost or ghostlike image of a person

18. 15. WOD – Imprecations POS – (n) MOD – “’Villefort sank to the floor and came to rest with his head on Valentine’s bed. The servants turned and fled, muttering sinister imprecations. They were heard hurrying down the stairs and through the halls, then there was a great hustle and bustle in the courtyard and that was all; every one of them had deserted the accursed house.” Prediction – Definition – A spoken curse

19. Journal Topics 11. Describe a time when you were obstinate and wouldn’t listen to any form of persuasion. Use dialogue. 12. What do you choose or have chosen to hastily complete? 14. Write the opening scene to a ghost story. Make sure to include apparitions.