Vocabulary Activity

Vocabulary Activity 1. Mute (adjective) - refraining from speech or temporarily speechless; not expressed in speech; characterized by an absence of sound; quiet. -Sentence: Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute. (page 40) -My sentence: As the pastor was praying, all in the room were mute. 2. Gravely (adjective) – giving cause for alarm. -Sentence: It suited the white man to break the tribe, he continued gravely. (page 56) . -My sentence: I gravely screamed when I fell of my bike. 3. Articulately (adjective) - having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently. -Sentence: Inarticulately he strokes her face, his heart is filled with pity. (page 61). -My sentence: Gabe speaks articulately on presentations. 4. Reconcile (verb) - restore friendly relations between -Sentence: And thus reconciled, they sat hand in hand. (page 61). -My sentence: I reconciled with my friend from 3rd grade. 5. Stipend (noun) - a fixed regular sum paid as a salary or allowance. -Sentence: To save ten pounds from a stipend of eight pounds a month takes much patience and time, especially for a parson, who must dress in good black clothes. (page 64). -My sentence: My parents get their stipend every Friday. 6. Irresolute (adjective) - showing or feeling hesitancy. - Sentence: So getting no peace, she rose irresolute, and went to a room behind, and after some time she returned with the bible. (page 79).

-My Sentence: When I was going to skateboard for the first time I was Irresolute.

7. Corrugated (adjective) -shaped into alternate ridges and grooves. -Sentence: There is corrugated iron at the reformatory, they use it to cover the Nance field Station, lying neatly packed in bundles. (page 88). -My Sentence: My bike is corrugated.. 8. Travail (noun) – painful or laborious effort. a. Sentence: (page 90) b. My Sentence: I was very travail when I fell of a cliff. 9. Obscure (adjective) – not discovered or known about; uncertain. -Sentence: He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing. (page 93). -My Sentence: I was obscure until I came out of the womb. 10. Desolate (adjective) – deserted of people and in a state if bleak and dismal emptiness. -Sentence: And then in one fraction of time the hills with deep melodious names stood out waste and desolate beneath the pitiless sun, the streams ceased to run, the cattle moved thin and listless over the red and rootless earth. (page 93). - My Sentence: Disneyland was desolated at 10 in the morning. 11. Muse (verb) – be absorbed in thought. -Sentence: His voice would falter and die away, and he would fall silent and muse. (page 93). -My Sentence: My brother was muse before his test.