Monday April 30 finishing Gatsby...script assignment



Friday April 27 Gatsby through chapter VIII / symbolism

Vocabulary 13: due Tuesday May 1
Quick write: chapter 8
review of symbolism and the tale so far.
handout: plot line, copy below
finish the book for Monday


Gatsby. Reading schedule;


For Friday April 20 through chapter II


For Monday April 23 through chapter IV
For Tuesday April 24 through chapter V


For Wednesday April 25 through chapter VI


For Thursday April 26 through chapter VII


For Friday April 27 through chapter VIII


For Monday April 30 through chapter IX  -end of novel


Be prepared for a quick write or short quiz for each day. 





The Great Gatsby: ThemeTracker, Timeline-style rundown of all the important plot points

Back-story          

Jay Gatz is born on a farm in North Dakota.

Gatsby charms and becomes an assistant to Dan Cody, a multimillionaire.

Gatsby and Daisy fall in love in Louisville while Gatsby trains as a soldier.

Gatsby is a hero in the war and attends Oxford. Daisy marries Tom Buchanan

Gatsby returns to America penniless. He meets and goes into business with Meyer Wolfsheim.

1      

In the summer of 1922, Nick Carraway moves to New York. He rents a house in new money West Egg, across the bay from old money East Egg.,

Nick goes to dinner at his cousin Daisy Buchanan’s house in East Egg. He also knows Daisy’s husband Tom, vaguely, from their time together at Yale.

At dinner, he meets Jordan Baker, endures Tom’s racist rants, and learns that Tom is having an affair.

Nick spots his neighbor Gatsby gazing across Long Island Sound at a tiny green light.

2      

Nick meets Tom’s mistress, Myrtle Wilson, who is the wife of George Wilson, a mechanic in the Valley of Ashes.

Myrtle goes with Tom and Nick to the apartment Tom keeps in New York City. The gathering becomes a drunken party at which guests swaps rumors about Gatsby. At one point, Myrtle teases Tom by repeating Daisy’s name. Tom breaks Myrtle’s nose.

3      

Nick attends one of the extravagant Saturday night parties Gatsby throws at his mansion. Nick runs into Jordan at the party.

As Nick and Jordan explore the mansion, they meet Owl Eyes in Gatsby’s library. Owl Eyes admires the “realism” of Gatsby’s unread book collection.

Nick meets Gatsby at the party and the two realize that they knew each other in the army. Later, Gatsby tells Jordan a secret, remarkable story about his past.

Nick and Jordan start to date.

    4      

Nick travels into the city with Gatsby. Gatsby gets pulled over for speeding, but shows a little card to the policeman and is not given a ticket.

Nick meets Gatsby’s business partner Meyer Wolfsheim. Later they run into Tom Buchanan. Gatsby appears embarrassed and leaves without saying goodbye.

Jordan tells Nick the story of how Gatsby and Daisy fell in love but did not marry, and explains that Gatsby bought his mansion because it is directly across from Daisy’ house in East Egg. Nick realizes the green light must be on Daisy’s dock. Finally, Jordan relays Gatsby’s request that Nick engineer a meeting between him and Daisy.

   5      

Nick arranges the meeting between Daisy and Gatsby. Though at first it is awkward, soon Daisy and Gatsby are blissfully happy.

Gatsby gives them a tour of his mansion. Daisy cries over Gatsby’s beautiful English shirts. Nick leaves the two of them alone.

   6      

Tom and Daisy attend a party at Gatsby’s mansion, but Daisy seems to have a bad time. After the party, Gatsby suspects Daisy doesn’t understand the depth of his feelings for her.

Nick reminds Gatsby that the past is impossible to repeat. Gatsby disagrees.

   7      

Gatsby ceases throwing parties now that he has Daisy. He fires his servants, so they can’t gossip about Daisy’s afternoon visits to the mansion.

Daisy invites Nick and Gatsby to lunch with Jordan and Tom. Before lunch, Daisy kisses Gatsby when Tom is out of the room. A moment later, Gatsby sees Daisy’s daughter, and seems surprised.

During lunch, Tom can tell from Daisy’s behavior that she and Gatsby are having an affair. Gatsby and Nick agree that Daisy is indiscreet. Gatsby comments that Daisy’s voice is “full of money.”

The group goes to New York City. Tom drives Gatsby’s car, while Gatsby drives Tom’s coupe. They stop at Wilson’s garage to get gas, and Tom learns of Wilson’s plans to move west with Myrtle.

At Tom’s apartment, Gatsby and Tom argue over Daisy. Daisy says she loves only Gatsby. But a moment later, Daisy takes it back. Gatsby is shocked. Tom, victorious, tells the defeated Gatsby to drive Daisy home.

On the ride home, Gatsby’s car hits and kills Myrtle (who thought that the car was Tom’s, since Tom had been driving it earlier). Daisy is secretly at the wheel.

Nick remembers that it’s his thirtieth birthday. Gatsby hides outside of the Buchanans’ house out of concern for Daisy, though it’s clear that she’s fine.

  8       

Nick advises Gatsby to forget about Daisy, but he dismisses the advice. Then he tells Nick about how he first fell in love with Daisy.

Nick and Jordan have a fight over the phone. Nick finds that he doesn’t care.

George Wilson thinks the driver of the car is Myrtle’s lover, and somehow figures out that the car was Gatsby’s. Wilson shoots Gatsby, then kills himself.

     9    

Besides Nick and Gatsby’s father, only Owl Eyes attends Gatsby’s funeral.

Nick and Jordan end their relationship. Jordan accuses Nick of being dishonest with her.

Nick learns that Tom told Wilson that Gatsby had run over Myrtle, and describes Tom and Daisy as careless people who destroy things.

On his last night in West Egg before returning to Minnesota for good, Nick compares how the first settlers to America must have felt looking out at the great forests of the New World to how Gatsby must have felt when he realized that the green light was on Daisy’s dock.

Thursday April 28 Gatsby

vocabulary 13 due on Tuesday May 2


Quick Write chapter VII


Looking at the American Dream
    
    and applying it to the text.




Gatsby. Reading schedule;


For Friday April 20 through chapter II


For Monday April 23 through chapter IV
For Tuesday April 24 through chapter V


For Wednesday April 25 through chapter VI


For Thursday April 26 through chapter VII


For Friday April 27 through chapter VIII


For Monday April 30 through chapter IX  -end of novel


Be prepared for a quick write or short quiz for each day. 

Wednesday 25 April Gatsby characterization

Vocabulary 13: due Tuesday May 1
If you were absent yesterday, make sure you give me a list of 15 components that make up your American dream.
missing: Aaron, Mariah, Arieanna, Kerri, Raphael, Linai

Gatsby. Reading schedule;


For Friday April 20 through chapter II


For Monday April 23 through chapter IV
For Tuesday April 24 through chapter V


For Wednesday April 25 through chapter VI


For Thursday April 26 through chapter VII


For Friday April 27 through chapter VIII


For Monday April 30 through chapter IX  -end of novel


Be prepared for a quick write or short quiz for each day. 




Classwork: Building characterization through textual evidence. This is in lieu of the quick write. Due at the end of class. This is no problem, if you have kept up with the reading.  (individual work; class participation grade!) See handout below.

How text brings characters to life. For each of the following find textual evidence that either gives a literal or implied description of the character.  Use may use any material through chapter 6. The implied description may be obtained through dialogue, or in the case of Nick, an observation or reflection he makes. For the implied, explain the deeper meaning.

Nick:

1.       literal:

2.       literal

3.       implied:

4.       implied

Gatsby:

1.       literal

2.       literal

3.       implied

4.       implied

Daisy:

1.       literal

2.       literal

3.       implied

4.       implied

Tom

1.       literal

2.       literal

3.       implied

    

4.       implied

Myrtle:

1.       literal

2.       literal

3.       implied

4.       implied

George Wilson

1.       literal

2.       literal

3.       implied

4.       implied

Monday April 30 Gatsby finale / project info

Tuesday 24 April

Vocabulary 13 due Tuesday May 1


Gatsby. Reading schedule;
For Friday April 20 through chapter II
For Monday April 23 through chapter IV
For Tuesday April 24 through chapter V
For Wednesday April 25 through chapter VI
For Thursday April 26 through chapter VII
For Friday April 27 through chapter VIII
Be prepared for a quick write or short quiz for each day. 


In class: quick write for chapter 5


In order to review the tone of the 1920's and establish Gatsby's behaviors we are reading the following in class. Make sure, if you are absent, you are familiar with this.

The end of the war

Tuesday November 12, 1918

The Guardian

The war is over, and in a million households fathers and mothers, wives and sisters, will breathe freely, relieved at length of all dread of that curt message which has shattered the hope and joy of so many.

The war is over. The drama is played out. After years of tedium there opened on March 21 a short and sharp fifth act of swift and surprising changes. Our language misses that single word applied by the Greeks to those suddenly and complete changes of fortune which they regarded as appropriate to the final act of a tragic drama.

No historic change of fortune so swift, so pulverising to the loser has occurred since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow as the reversal that began on July 18. And since July 18 blow has followed blow with a rapidity which, if it has almost bewildered the victors, must have stupefied the enemy. But it is not of the drama that we would think mainly for the moment, nor even of the problem that the war has opened.

For, if peace between the nations has returned, within each nation there is open or suppressed ferment. The old order in Europe has perished. The new is hardly born, and no one knows what its lineaments will be. To-morrow we shall be brought up against the hard immediate problems of re-establishment. Before we grapple with these, let us give a moment to the review of the position gained and try our best to sum up the result of four tremendous years as it may be measured by the historian. From Waterloo to Mons there elapsed almost 100 years.

The first part of this period was one of peace and progress, industry and optimism. Below the surface were seething forces of democracy and nationalism, and soon these began to break forth to disturb the complacency of statesmen. But for the thinker these forces were full of hope, and the men of the mid-nineteenth century foresaw a better order, a civilised humanity, a race dedicated to the works of peace and the cultivation of a race dedicated to the works of peace and the cultivation of a gentler and yet a nobler life.

Towards the end of the century their optimism gave way to a gloomier view. Unrest and anxiety took hold of the more thoughtful minds. Democracy had everywhere progressed but had not brought healing. The burden of armaments lay heavy on the nations, and the war cloud lowered dark on the horizon.

The main cause of this change was the success of the Prussian system under Bismarck. The year 1870 divides the period of which we have spoken into two nearly equal halves, of progress and hope on the one side, and reaction and apprehension on the other. The union of Germany was, indeed, accepted, even welcomed, by liberally-minded men as the overdue consummation of a long and unhappy political travail, but the mode in which it was accomplished turned out to be more fateful to Germany and the world than the achievement itself.

From 1870 men began to accept the doctrine of blood and iron. Ideas, arguments, appeals to right and justice took a lower place. Force and fraud seemed to make their way, if only men would be thorough in the use of them. The Prussian idea enjoyed all the prestige of immense success, and the pre-eminence of Germany in many fields of learning, backed with this prestige, won its way in the regions of the mind. The idea of humanity receded in favour of the State, freedom gave way to disciplined and organisation, right to the strong hand, reason to passion, and self-restraint to ambition.

Meanwhile in one country after another there arose the sense of instability. It began to be felt that things could not last as they were. The piled-up armaments were like vast electric accumulators awaiting their discharge. In England these influences penetrated more slowly, but from the time when Germany set out seriously to become a great naval Power we felt that we, too, were being drawn in.

For long years, even to the last, many of us hoped that ours might be the balancing power, so exerted as to deter either side in the great Continental combinations from a fatal plunge. But it was not to be. The Prussian idea swept Germany out of itself and gave to the world the final demonstration of naked deformity. The circumstances of the war were such that, a very few individuals apart, it united all the humanitarian enthusiasm, all the political love of liberty, which nowadays go to the support of peace, in favour of a stern resistance, carried through, at whatever cost, to indubitable victory.

The defeat of Prussianism was rightly stated by Mr. Asquith at the outset as the object which included all others. Prussianism - an idea, a system, not a nation or an army - is hopelessly defeated to-day. It is defeated more completely by internal disruption than by any blow in the field. Its hold on the world's future is gone, and the human mind is empty, swept and garnished, of its worst idol.

That is the real and decisive victory in the war. Into the mind that is swept and garnished the parable tells us that other devils might enter. In fact anarchy - which is disorganised in place of organised force - seems waiting at the door. But anarchy is never more than a transitory evil.

When all is cleared up we believe it will be seen that by the final test as between the doctrines of might and right the foundations of a new world-order have been laid. The old sovereign nation State has destroyed itself, as the feudal nobility destroyed itself in the Wars of the Roses. As that spectacle of prolonged and senseless anarchy made men turn with relief to the order secured by the absolute monarchy, so the anarchy of the international world has forced upon people for the first time as a serious practical proposal the political organisation of civilised mankind.

It is felt to be a choice between the continued risk of mutual destruction in wars which must grow ever more deadly, on the one side, and some organised form of international co-operation on the other. The world has once sacrificed its soul in hecatombs, in masses the mere figures of which will appal future eyes. It is a thing not to be done again without sapping the very vitals of human feeling.

As it is, the loss of capacity in the extinction of the most promising men of a generation is a catastrophe only to be compared with some of the great historic pestilences. We were caught up in the vortex and could not escape. We had to go through it, whatever the sacrifice of life. But if, after this experience, we allow such a thing to recur, we ill repay those who have died for us in the hope of a better order.

If, on the other hand, we buckle to our task we can found a nobler State than any that have gained glory in former wars, a kingdom or, say rather, a commonwealth of man, in which all the great nations that have played their part in this tragedy will have their share. In this we are achieving, not anything out of keeping with human nature, but rather the natural culmination of historic development which is, stage by stage, a movement towards more complete political organisation, of larger scope and powers, on the whole founded more broadly upon right and leaning less upon force.

The nineteenth century had already built up a higher order than any that its predecessors achieved. The democratic State on the national scale, with its deepened sense of public responsibility, still conserving regard for personal freedom, was the highest political organisation yet known to the world, and the war has proved it tougher and firmer than its autocratic rival. But the States, considered together, were an arch without a keystone, and they fell to pieces. We have now to rebuild them into a world-order, and in doing so, in dispelling fear and hostility between nations, we shall remove the main obstacles to the growth of equal freedom and brotherly comradeship within.

By the hundred thousand young men have died for the hope of a better world. They have opened for us the way. If, as a people, we can be wise and tolerant and just in peace as we have been resolute in war, we shall build them the memorial that they have earned in the form of a world set free from military force, national tyrannies, and class oppressions, for the pursuit of a wider justice in the spirit of a deeper and more human religion.

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Monday April 23 The Great Gatsby

Bathtub Gin.
The post World War I world wasn't all doom and gloom as reflected in Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock or the angst and disillusionment of the characters in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. In The Great Gatsby (another ironic title?) we are looking at the pursuit of the American Dream. There is still disipation, but there is a vitality and overall celebration of life. Langston Hughes' poem says it well:

Jazzonia

Oh, silver tree! 
Oh, shining rivers of the soul! 

In a Harlem cabaret 
Six long-headed jazzers play. 
A dancing girl whose eyes are bold 
Lifts high a dress of silken gold. 

Oh, singing tree! 
Oh, shining rivers of the soul! 

Were Eve's eyes 
In the first garden 
Just a bit too bold? 
Was Cleopatra gorgeous 
In a gown of gold? 

Oh, shining tree! 
Oh, silver rivers of the soul! 

In a whirling cabaret 
Six long-headed jazzers play. 

Due today at the beginning of class for full credit: vocabulary 12
Chapters 3 and 4 of Gatsby. Quick write. As said before you will have one each day. I'll drop the lowest grade.
Classwork: What constitutes the American dream?
                   review of chapters 1-4
Gatsby. Reading schedule;
For Friday April 20 through chapter II
For Monday April 23 through chapter IV
For Tuesday April 24 through chapter V
For Wednesday April 25 through chapter VI
For Thursday April 26 through chapter VII
For Friday April 27 through chapter VIII
Be prepared for a quick write or short quiz for each day.

 I'm handing out vocabulary 13 (copy below), which is due on TUESDAY MAY 1.

Vocabulary 13    definitions

1.            abstruse- (adjective)- extremely difficult to understand; esoteric; arcane, recondite, occult

2.            affront- (noun)- an open or intentional insult; a slight, offense; (verb) to insult to one’s face; to confront,

          offend

3.            canard- (noun)- false rumor, fabricated story, hoax

4.            captious- (adjective)- excessively ready to find fault; given to petty criticism; intended to trap, confuse; show

       up,  fault finding, nit-picking, carping

5.            cognizant-(adjective)- aware, knowledgeable, informed, having jurisdiction; conscious, acquainted

6.            contrite- (adjective)- regretful for some misdeed or sin; plagued with a sense of guilt; thoroughly penitent, 

                     remorseful, rueful

7.            cynosure (noun) the center of attraction; attention or interest, something that serves to guide or direct, focus

8.            decorous (adjective)- well-behaved, dignified, socially proper, seemly, becoming, tasteful

9.            deign (verb)- to think it appropriate or suitable to one’s dignity to do something; to condescend, deem, stoop

10.        desiccated (adjective)- thoroughly dried out; divested of spirit or vitality, arid and uninteresting

11.        efficacy (noun)- the power to produce a desired result, effectiveness, potency, reliability

12.        engender (verb)- to bring into existence, give rise to, produce, to come into existence, assume form, beget,

                       generate

13.        ethereal (adjective)- light, airy, delicate; highly refined; suggesting what is heavenly (rather than earthbound)

                      celestial, gossamer

14.        façade (noun)- the front or face of a building; a surface appearance (as opposed to what may lay behind); exterior,  surface, mask, pretense

15.        ghoulish (adjective)- revolting in an unnatural or morbid way; suggestive of someone who robs graves or

                  otherwise preys on the dead; fiendish, barbarous, monstrous

16.        incongruous (adjective)- not in keeping, unsuitable, incompatible; discordant; jarring

17.        machination (noun)- craft, scheming, or underhanded action designed to accomplish some (usually evil) end; plot scheme, maneuver

18.        mesmerize (verb)- to hypnotize, entrance; fascinate, enthrall, bewitch

19.        opprobrium (noun)- disgrace arising from shameful conduct; contempt, reproach, infamy, dishonor, odium, shame

20.        putative (adjective)- generally regarded as such; putative; hypothesized, inferred, supposed, presumed

                              Vocabulary 13, exercise 1             Use the correct form.

1.            After years of neglect, the sooty __________________________ of the cathedral is finally getting a much needed cleaning.

2.            The ____________________________ practice of grave robbing is sometimes motivated by the desire to find and sell valuables.

3.            The physicist tried to explain her _________________________ research in the field of quantum mechanics.

4.            For over a century, the Statue of Liberty has been the _________________________ for millions of immigrants entering New York Harbor.

5.            Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods lawyer, and Mary Todd, the rich socialite, seemed a(n) _______________________________ couple.

6.            The tabloid journalist was responsible for spreading the ________________________ about the candidate’s mental health.

7.            On formal occasions, like weddings and graduations, participants are expected to behave in a _______________________________ manner.

8.            Shakespeare’s Othello was the victim not only of Iago’s evil ________________________________ but also of his own jealous nature.

9.            She is an invariably _________________ critic, finding fault with even the best performances.

10.        Jerald took the joke that Deanna had told him as an __________________, not as a harmless joke.

11.        The magician was able to ______________________________ the audience with his fast-moving hands and distracting chatter.

12.        Police officers must make sure that crime suspects are made ____________________________ of their rights before they are questioned.

13.        The enlisted men were surprised that the four-star general __________________________ to speak to them as he toured the camp.

14.        Despite the passage of centuries, ________________________________ is still attached to the name of the traitor Benedict Arnold.

15.        The convicted felon had the look of someone who was truly ____________________________ and ready to pay for his crimes.

16.        The cornfield was _______________________________ by the scorching sun after the long, hot summer without rain.

17.        Ancient Celtic rituals and ceremonies are the ____________________________ origins of some of our modern Halloween customs.

18.        The university has made an appealing videotape in order to ____________________________ student interest in studying abroad.

19.        Our team of inventors took great care to measure the _______________ of their newly designed machine.

20.        The Renaissance painter Fra Angelico captured the _________________________ beauty of angels in his famous frescoes.

                                  Vocabulary 13, exercise 2

1.            The longer I study this country’s history, the more ______________________________ I become of my rich heritage of freedom.

2.            Some historians question whether Benedict Arnold really deserves all the _____________________________ he has been accorded as America’s arch-traitor.

3.            At the risk of appearing a trifle _____________________________, I would like to raise a few small objections to the wording of this proposal.

4.            After the battle, camp followers began the _______________________________ process of stripping the dead of whatever valuables they possessed.

5.            Some teachers are able to present the most ____________________________ subjects in terms that are crystal-clear to even the dullest of students.

6.            The _________________________________ of the unscrupulous wheeler-dealers involved in that unsavory scandal boggle the imagination.

7.            I didn’t really believe that he was sorry for what he had done until I saw the ______________________ expression on his sad little face.

8.            The pages of the old book were so __________________________ that they began to crumble as soon as we began to touch them.

9.            There is not a vast body of evidence that supports the idea that poverty tends to ________________________ crime.

10.        To be the ____________________________ of all eyes could be the joyous fulfillment of a dream or the unhappy realization of a nightmare.

11.        The only surefire way to establish the __________________________of a new drug in treating a disease is to test it “in the field.”

12.        For more than five minutes she stared at the telegram containing the bad news, as if she were _____________________________.

13.        His fantastic stories about his academic, athletic, financial and romantic achievements are a(n) ______________________________ to common sense.

14.        Am I supposed to feel honored simply because that arrogant lout sometimes _________________________ to nod vaguely in my direction?

15.        Except for a balcony built during the Truman administration, the ____________________________ of the White House has remained virtually unchanged since it was constructed.

16.        What could be more _________________________________ that the 6-foot, 7-inch center on the basketball team dolled up in baby clothes for the class play!

17.        No one knows for sure who really wrote the scene, but Shakespeare is generally regarded as its ________________________________ author.

18.        Only a thoroughly naïve and gullible person would actually believe every preposterous ___________________________ that circulates in this school.

19.        The child’s conduct during the ceremony may not have been appropriately____________________, but it was not horrendous either.

20.        The cherubic faces and __________________________ voices of the choristers almost made me believe that the music they were singing was coming from heave.

Vocabulary 13, exercise 3

Synonyms

1. a fiendish interest in death                                                                  ______________________________

2. exposed as a total hoax                                                                       _____________________________

3. bewitched by the speaker’s soothing voice                                         _________________________________

4. esoteric concepts developed by experts                                              ________________________________

5. stooped to give a few interviews                                                        _______________________________

6. the focus of a dazzled audience                                                          _______________________________

7. conscious of our mutual responsibilities                                            _______________________________

8. disliked for his nit-picking                                                                 ______________________________

9. an offense to an entire group of people                                             _______________________________

10. the jarring reunion of longtime rivals                                              _______________________________

11. foiled the schemes of the villain                                                      _______________________________

12. begets distrust by covering up mistakes                                          _______________________________

13. paintings of women with heavenly qualities                                   _______________________________

14. showed a mere pretence of gratitude                                               _______________________________

15. brought shame on the whole family                                                ________________________________

                                            

Antonyms

16. the known whereabouts of the fugitive                                            _______________________________

17. the ineffectiveness of our foreign policy                                         ________________________________

18. the unrepentant ringleaders of the riot                                            ________________________________

19. looked over the soggy farmland                                                      _______________________________

20. the unseemly appearance of the judge                                            _______________________________   

Vocabulary 13, exercise 4

1.            If you had listened to my warnings in the first place, there would be no need for you to feel (contrite / desiccated) now.    

2.             A government that fails to bring about peaceful reform (engenders / deigns) the kind of social unrest that makes violent revolution inevitable.

3.            “Do we have sufficient evidence at hand,” I asked, “to judge the (efficacy / cognizance) of the new method of teaching reading?”

4.            In my youthful folly, I inadvertently (affronted, engendered) the very people whose aid I was attempting to enlist.

5.            The (efficacy, opprobrium) of history forever attaches itself to the name of Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President Kennedy.

6.            For any actor, it is a unique thrill to know that when you are alone on stage, you are the (façade / cynosure) of hundreds of pairs of eyes.

7.            He tried to conceal his lack of scholarship and intellectual depth by using unnecessarily (efficacious / abstruse) language.

8.            The book describes in great detail the odious (machinations / facades) involved in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany.

9.            The President must always be on his toes because a careless answer to a (contrite / captious) question could land him in hot water.

10.        The candidate’s “shocking revelation” about his opponent was later shown to be nothing more that a malicious (canard / cynosure).

11.        I resent your nasty question about whether or not I will (deign / affront) to speak to “ordinary students” after I’m elected class president.

12.        The audience was so quiet after the curtain fell that I couldn’t tell whether they were bored or (deigned / mesmerized) by her artistry.

13.        Like many people who are completely wrapped up in themselves, she simply isn’t (cognizant / decorous) of the larger world before her.

14.        His unmistakable interest in the gruesome details of the tragedy revealed that he possessed the sensibilities of a (canard / ghoul).

15.        The play is so peopled with spirits and other incorporeal beings that it has the (ethereal / captious) quality of a dream.

16.        Her quiet speech, subdued clothes and (decorous / desiccated) manner made it hard to believe that she was famous rock star.

17.        He acts like someone whose vital juices have long since dried up, leaving only a drab and (desiccated / contrite) shell behind.

18.        It has been said that humor is essentially the yoking of (incongruous / ethereal) elements within a familiar or recognizable framework.

19.        Philologists believe that many Western languages can be traced back to a (putative / decorous) parent tongue known as Indo-European.

20.        It wasn’t at all hard to recognize signs of extreme uneasiness beneath her (canard / façade) of buoyant optimism.