1. Vocabulary Warm-up Ch. 16-20 Mrs. Shean

2. Directions: Guess the definition of the underlined word. 1. Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? 2. My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their affection.

3. Directions: Guess the definition of the underlined word. 3. The child still struggled, and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart: I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet. 4. Thanks to the lessons of Felix and the sanguinary laws of man, I had learned now to work mischief.

4. Directions: Guess the definition of the underlined word. 5. This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess. 6. After some days spent in listless indolence, during which I traversed many leagues, I arrived at Strasbourg, where I waited for two days for Clerval.

5. Directions: Guess the definition of the underlined word. 7. I visited Edinburgh with languid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being. 8. I had before been moved by the sophisms of being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats…

6. Directions: Guess the definition of the underlined word. 9. I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom, and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries. 10. Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me, and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.