List Two words
List two - create a Vocabulary page, define the 10 words below and use them in a sentence.
(A) Austen's novels engendered, or led to, much interest in Austen herself, but she avoided literary circles and
publicity.
Definition- To bring into existence.
Your Sentence - The mother of my child engendered my first daughter on July 1st.
(B) Although a private person, Austen apparently was not an introvert; she was lively and outgoing among family and friends.
Definition- A shy person.
Your Sentence - I sometimes can be introvert depending on who's around me.
(C) The family may have regarded Austen's habit of writing in the sitting room as out of the ordinary, but they tolerated this idiosyncrasy.
Definition- a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
Your Sentence - I don't have any odd idiosyncrasy.
(D) What some people would regard as humdrum domestic duties occupied much of Austen's time. I wonder whether she found them as dull as my friends and I would.
Definition- A boring personality. Lacking variety. Dull person.
Your Sentence - I was never seen as a humdrum.
(E) Austen received much of her education from her father, a teacher and minister. I imagine that he was a serious, learned man who wrote scholarly homilies on religious topics.
Definition- a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
Your Sentence - My pastor does amazing homilies every Sunday.
(F) We might not ascribe an interest in acting to Austen, but such an interest was very much a part of her
character.
Definition- to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute;impute:
Your Sentence - I don't ascribe to illiterate people.
(G) She performed in home theatrical shows. Do you think this experience was significant or inconsequential to Austen as a novelist?
Definition– Lacking importance.
Your Sentence - Some people become depressed over being inconsequential.
(H) No one could complain that Austen was writing hackneyed stories; her work was never trite or unoriginal.
Definition- Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.
Your Sentence - Some stories that my uncle tells me become hackneyed.
(I)
Austen considered her older sister Cassandra to be a paragon of talent. She especially admired Cassandra's comic work.
Definition- a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence.Your Sentence - I've been told that my style is paragon.
(J) Cassandra wrote lovingly, even poetically, of her sister. Do you know if a family member wrote an elegy to mourn Jane's death in 1817?
Definition- a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Your Sentence - I wouldn't want an elegy at my funeral.
(A) Austen's novels engendered, or led to, much interest in Austen herself, but she avoided literary circles and
publicity.
Definition- To bring into existence.
Your Sentence - The mother of my child engendered my first daughter on July 1st.
(B) Although a private person, Austen apparently was not an introvert; she was lively and outgoing among family and friends.
Definition- A shy person.
Your Sentence - I sometimes can be introvert depending on who's around me.
(C) The family may have regarded Austen's habit of writing in the sitting room as out of the ordinary, but they tolerated this idiosyncrasy.
Definition- a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual.
Your Sentence - I don't have any odd idiosyncrasy.
(D) What some people would regard as humdrum domestic duties occupied much of Austen's time. I wonder whether she found them as dull as my friends and I would.
Definition- A boring personality. Lacking variety. Dull person.
Your Sentence - I was never seen as a humdrum.
(E) Austen received much of her education from her father, a teacher and minister. I imagine that he was a serious, learned man who wrote scholarly homilies on religious topics.
Definition- a sermon, usually on a Biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature.
Your Sentence - My pastor does amazing homilies every Sunday.
(F) We might not ascribe an interest in acting to Austen, but such an interest was very much a part of her
character.
Definition- to credit or assign, as to a cause or source; attribute;impute:
Your Sentence - I don't ascribe to illiterate people.
(G) She performed in home theatrical shows. Do you think this experience was significant or inconsequential to Austen as a novelist?
Definition– Lacking importance.
Your Sentence - Some people become depressed over being inconsequential.
(H) No one could complain that Austen was writing hackneyed stories; her work was never trite or unoriginal.
Definition- Overfamiliar through overuse; trite.
Your Sentence - Some stories that my uncle tells me become hackneyed.
(I)
Austen considered her older sister Cassandra to be a paragon of talent. She especially admired Cassandra's comic work.
Definition- a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence.Your Sentence - I've been told that my style is paragon.
(J) Cassandra wrote lovingly, even poetically, of her sister. Do you know if a family member wrote an elegy to mourn Jane's death in 1817?
Definition- a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.
Your Sentence - I wouldn't want an elegy at my funeral.