The Lady , or the Tiger? Frank Stockton

1. The Lady , or the Tiger?Frank Stockton Vocabulary

2. Barbaric: uncivilized, wild • Progressive: moving forward, new-age thinking • Florid: having a healthy red color • Untrammeled: free of action, unrestricted • Notion: a general idea • Valor: courage, bravery • Refined: having or showing well-bred feeling, taste

3. Exuberant: extremely excited, lively, enthusiastic • Inevitable: certain to happen • Impartial: not partial or biased, free of judgment/opinion • Fate: something that unavoidably happens, can’t prevent • Emanated: to come forth, flow out, issue

4. Allegiance: to loyalty of a citizen to his/her government, to another • Ingrafted: to insert, become one • Incorruptible: that cannot be bribed or swayed • Procured: to obtain to get by care, effort or use of special means • Doleful: sorrowful, mournful, melancholy

5. Dire: causing or involving great suffering, dread • Subordinate: placed in or belonging to a lower order or rank • Retribution: act of punishing or taking vengeance for wrongdoing, sin, or injury • Epithalamic: a poem or song written to celebrate a wedding

6. Solemnized: to perform a ceremony (of marriage) • Tribunal: a court of judgment • Fervent: having/showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm • Imperious: Domineering in a haughty manner, overbearing • Unsurpassed: unable to go beyond or exceed

7. Aesthetic: the appreciation of beauty or value • Moiety: half of something • Fervid: strongly emotional or intense in spirit • Damsels: a young woman, girl, a maiden • Parapet: a defensive wall • Devious: sneaky, or sinister • Grievous: causing grief or sorrow • Reveries: a state of dreaming, day dreaming

8. Rapturous: full of feeling, intense delight • Multitude: a great number • Futurity: future time • Deliberation: careful consideration before decision • Presume: to take for granted, assume or suppose