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6th Grade: With Definition - 1
| absurd |      |
a. ridiculously unreasonable; foolish
I put my request in an absurd, almost insolent form.
The necessity must be obeyed, and further apology would be absurd.
I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
| accident | |
n. event that takes place without expectation; sudden, and unexpected event
My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating.
Owing to an accident at the commencement of March, he became for some days a fixture in the kitchen.
This accident absolutely determined Glumdalclitch never to trust me abroad for the future out of her sight.
| accompany | |
v. travel with; be associated with
I asked if Georgiana would accompany her.
She was to accompany Sir William and his second daughter.
Mrs. Linton, who was very much excited, bade me accompany her up-stairs.
| accumulate | |
v. pile up; collect; mount up; increase
Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste.
Earnshaw blushed crimson when his cousin made this revelation of his private literary accumulations, and stammered an indignant denial of her accusations.
| accurate | |
a. capable of providing a correct reading or measurement
a. performing with care and precision
a. performing with care and precision
The young sailor gave a look to see that his orders were promptly and accurately obeyed, and then turned again to the owner.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
Instinctively Dantes turned round to observe by what watch or clock the abbe had been able so accurately to specify the hour.
This time you will lay your plans more accurately; we shall get out into the gallery you have described; kill the sentinel who guards it, and make our escape.
| accuse | |
v. blame; condemn
She cannot accuse me of showing one bit of deceitful softness.
The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high-treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu.
I expected every moment that my master would accuse the Yahoos of those unnatural appetites in both sexes, so common among us.
| acre | |
n. a unit of land area equal to 4,840 square yards
n. a large extent or amount of something
n. a large extent or amount of something
As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.
And I saw Tityus son of Gaia stretched upon the plain and covering some nine acres of ground.
Outside the gate of the outer court there is a large garden of about four acres with a wall all round it.
| adjust | |
v. adapt; regulate
| admiration | |
n. favorable judgment; feeling of pleasure, wonder, and approval
And he waved his hands, as if words failed to express his admiration.
I never yet saw any one so beautiful, neither man nor woman, and am lost in admiration as I behold you.
I should choose this if I might, replied Amy, looking with great admiration at a string of gold and ebony beads from which hung a heavy cross of the same.
| adventure | |
n. something happens without design; hazard or risk
The luckless adventure made Earnshaw furious.
My journey was without any accident or adventure worth relating.
If he did not do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream.
| aghast | |
a. struck by shock, terror, or amazement
Caderousse and his wife started and looked aghast at each other.
Caderousse remained for a moment aghast under the weight of such an idea.
As to his cousin, she wept with all her might, aghast at the mischief she had done: though she said nothing.
| agreeable | |
a. ready to consent or submit; acceptable
Procrastination is not agreeable, observed Amy, taking a last look at the diamonds.
Mrs. Scott was a lively, pretty girl, with nothing to do but be agreeable, and she performed her mission most successfully.
I merely intend to make myself entrancingly agreeable to every one I know, and to keep them in your corner as long as possible.
| Alaska | |
n. a state in northwestern North America, the 49th state admitted to the union
| allergic | |
a. excessively sensitive; having an allergy
| aloud | |
ad. with relatively high volume
ad. using the voice; not silently
ad. using the voice; not silently
Amy was sketching a group of ferns, and Jo was knitting as she read aloud.
So he smote his thighs with the flat of his hands and cried aloud despairingly.
Laurie dashed downstairs for water, while Meg and Hannah supported her, and Jo read aloud, in a frightened voice.
| ambitious | |
a. aspiring; having a strong desire for success or achievement
your ambitious soul cannot refuse the Earl of Devereux.
They were ambitious, and Caesar Borgia soon found purchasers for their appointments.
You are mistaken; it is because he has a wife and family, and ambitious desires for himself and them.
| ambulance | |
n. wagon for conveying the wounded to hospital
n. field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements
n. field hospital organized as to follow an army in its movements
| annoy | |
v. disturb, especially by minor irritations; irritate
She longed to run home, bib and all, and ask Mother to lend her a hand, but John and she had agreed that they would never annoy anyone with their private worries, experiments, or quarrels.
If the flood annoyed him, so much the better.
The faces of the audience began to betray annoyance.
| antelope | |
n. graceful deerlike ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward
| apartment | |
n. a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house
In another moment I was within that apartment.
She quitted the apartment; Mr. Edgar inquired, carelessly, who it was.
I had put on some clothes, though horror shook all my limbs; I issued from my apartment.
| applause | |
n. a demonstration of approval by clapping the hands together
This joke elicited a fresh burst of applause.
There was a weak attempt at applause, but it died early.
But he got through safely, though cruelly scared, and got a fine round of applause when he made his manufactured bow and retired.
| appreciation | |
n. recognition; judgment or opinion, especially a favorable one
The reason why I am now dissatisfied is that I have not a clear appreciation of the past.
I appreciate your calm reasoning.
All savage natures appreciate a desperate deed.
| argue | |
v. invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow an opinion; debate
Colonel Dent and Mr. Eshton argue on politics; their wives listen.
Well, Mr. Lockwood, I argued and complained, and flatly refused him fifty times; but in the long run he forced me to an agreement.
"It's no use trying to argue with you," began Amy.
| Arkansas | |
n. a state in the south central region of the United States
| arrow | |
n. a straight thin shaft sharpened at the front with feathers the back
n. a mark to indicate a direction or relation
n. a mark to indicate a direction or relation
| article | |
n. essay, a piece of writing
n. individual thing or element of a class
n. individual thing or element of a class
When convinced on that article, Miss Bennet had nothing further to wish.
It took his fancy immensely, and he put it on his mantlepiece as an article of virtue, so it was rather a failure after all.
His last whim had been to bring with him on his weekly visits some new, useful, and ingenious article for the young housekeeper.
| ascent | |
n. upward slope or grade; movement upward
| asphalt | |
n. brownish-black solid mixture of bitumen, used in paving, roofing, and waterproofing
| assent | |
v. express agreement to what is proposed; accept
Monte Cristo nodded his head in token of assent.
Teresa felt a flush pass over her face; she looked at Luigi, who could not refuse his assent.
He did not hear what Amy was saying, and whenever she paused expectantly he could only stammer an awkward assent, which was as often misplaced as otherwise.
| asthma | |
n. chronic respiratory disease, often arising from allergies
| athlete | |
n. sports man; one who contended for prize in public games
I am a good hand at every kind of athletic sport known among mankind.
He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man; beside whom my master seemed quite slender and youth-like.
He was an athletic, gigantic bandit, with large eyes, thick lips, and a flat nose; his red hair fell in dishevelled masses like snakes around his shoulders.
| attraction | |
n. action or power of evoking interest or pleasure for something
He predicted the same fate to attraction, whereof the present learned are such zealous asserters.
She had become a stiff, silent child again as soon as he entered and he could not see what the attraction was.
Villefort, drawn by an irresistible attraction, like that of the bird to the serpent, walked towards the house.
| authority | |
n. jurisdiction; power to enforce laws
n. government
n. government
Diana looked and spoke with a certain authority: she had a will, evidently.
We thought Hannah was overdoing the authority business, and your mother ought to know.
A nothing vexed him; and suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits.
| authorize | |
v. empower; give permission for
I fully authorize you at once to assume the command of the Pharaon, and look carefully to the unloading of her freight.
The marquis will give you some papers which will certify this fact, and authorize you to appear under that name in the Parisian world.
Diana looked and spoke with a certain authority: she had a will, evidently.
| autobiography | |
n. biography or story written by oneself
| automatic | |
a. mechanized; operating with minimal human intervention; independent of external control
| automobile | |
n. self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on street or roadway
| autonomy | |
n. self-government or the right of self-government; self-determination
| avalanche | |
n. great mass of falling snow and ice
| aware | |
a. knowing; having knowledge or cognizance
Of course you are not aware what steps I have taken in the matter of the Helmers.
Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.
I am quite aware that my wife Penelope is nothing like so tall or so beautiful as yourself.
| balance | |
n. being in equilibrium; symmetry or stability
Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.
No sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands.
Danglars was balancing his monthly accounts, and it was perhaps not the most favorable moment for finding him in his best humor.
| bankrupt | |
a. penniless, without any money; financially ruined
There was no longer any doubt, the bankrupt was in the hands of Roman banditti.
Daisy, who was fond of going about peddling kisses, lost her best customer and became bankrupt.
The world will think you abandoned and poor, for the wife of a bankrupt would never be forgiven, were she to keep up an appearance of opulence.
| bargain | |
v. negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction
n. a thing bought or offered for sale more cheaply than is usual or expected
n. a thing bought or offered for sale more cheaply than is usual or expected
I have much the best of the bargain.
Yes, you did, it was a bargain between us.
I am master of a hundred arts, and have into the bargain a sackful of cunning.
| barometer | |
n. instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere
| betray | |
v. be unfaithful; deliver to an enemy by treachery
v. unintentionally reveal
v. unintentionally reveal
The faces of the audience began to betray annoyance.
Fearing to betray herself, she slipped away, murmuring something about needing more paper.
The girl made a sort of non-committal attempt to see, but the boy did not betray that he was aware of it.
| beware | |
v. be cautious or wary about; be alert to
| biodegradable | |
a. capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms
| blank | |
a. of a white or pale color; without color; empty or void
n. a space left to be filled in a document
n. a space left to be filled in a document
Again came the blank of a pause: the clock struck eight strokes.
The last was an awful blank: something like the world when the deluge was gone by.
What he suddenly saw on this blank paper, it was impossible for me to tell; but something had caught his eye.
| blindfold | |
n. a piece of cloth tied around the head to cover someone's eyes
Franz went in with his eyes blindfolded, and was waited on by mutes and by women to whom Cleopatra was a painted strumpet.
Tom slipped out in good season with his aunt's old tin lantern, and a large towel to blindfold it with.
The general's carriage was ready, but the president told him it was impossible for him to use it, since it was useless to blindfold the master if the coachman knew through what streets he went.
| blueprint | |
n. design or plan intended as a guide for making something
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