Vocabulary

Directions: For each vocabulary word, guess the

definition. (Make it short!)
*After we have all guessed, we define the each
vocabulary word as a class.
Vocabulary
conspicuous: ____________________________________
Guess: __________________________________________
Example: The yellow Start of David is conspicuous on all their
clothes (373).

unabashed: ______________________________________
Guess: __________________________________________
Example: Marcy was unabashed about her ambition to become
yearbook editor.

fortify: ____________________________
Guess: ____________________________
Example: He takes some pills to fortify himself (393).


Vocabulary
loathe: ______________________
Guess: _______________________
Example: She insists on treating me like a baby, which I
loathe (381).

indignantly: __________________________
Guess: ______________________________
Example: Anne (rising indignantly). I, rude! (387)

Vocabulary
conspicuous: noticeable
P.O.S. = adjective

unabashed: unembarrassed
P.O.S. = adjective

fortify: strengthen
P.O.S. verb (used with an object)

Vocabulary
Loathe: to hate
P.O.S. verb

Indignantly: with anger caused by
something felt to be unjust
P.O.S. = Adverb

Vocabulary
Act I: Scenes 4-5
Vocabulary
zeal: ____________________________________
Guess: __________________________________________
Example: We kindle this Hanukkah light to celebrate the great and
wonderful deeds wrought through the zeal with which God filled the
hearts of the heroic Maccabees (401).

tyranny: ______________________________
Guess: _______________________________
Example: They fought against indifference, against tyranny and
oppression (401).

ostentatiously: _________________________
Guess: ________________________________
Example: Peter is coming from his bedroom, ostentatiously holding a
bulge in his coat as if he were holding his cat (405).



Vocabulary
appalled: ______________________________________
Guess: _______________________________________
Example: He goes off into the bedroom. There is a second
of appalled silence (408).

gingerly: ______________________________________
Guess: ________________________________________
Example: He held it gingerly in his hands.


Vocabulary
zeal: great enthusiasm; devotion to a cause
P.O.S. - noun

tyranny: cruel and unjust rule or use of power
P.O.S. - noun

ostentatiously: in a showy or exaggerated way
P.O.S. - adverb

appalled: horrified; shocked
P.O.S. adj. (in this sentence, but it can be as a verb.)
Vocabulary

gingerly: carefully; cautiously
P.O.S. adverb


Vocabulary
Act II
Vocabulary
Disgruntled:
displeased; annoyed
P.O.S.:
verb (used as an adjective in the play)

Inarticulate:
unable to speak
P.O.S.:
adjective

Forlorn:
abandoned and lonely
P.O.S.:
adjective



Vocabulary
Remorse:
deep feeling of guilt
P.O.S.:
noun

Animation:
liveliness
P.O.S.:
noun