Thursday, July 19, 2012

Vocab of The Hound of the Baskervilles

In the previous post, I gave an overview for the homeschool mom of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  As promised, vocab by chapter.  In the vocab list for The Call of the Canyon, I expected my son will cover one chapter every three days, but the chapters in this volume are much smaller, so I combine two chapters of vocabulary this way:

Day 1: Look up vocabulary for Chapter One and Two (neatness counts!)
Day 2: Read Chapter One and Two
Day 3: Write 15 sentences with selected vocabulary words from Day One
Day 4: Look up vocabulary for Chapter Three and Four
Day 5: so on and so forth until the book is complete, five weeks later 

As in The Call of the Canyon, there is a reference to "making love" which in this era meant not much more than sitting on a park bench cooing like love birds.  You might want to go over this with your child before s/he hits that part.  Another lovely opportunity to discuss what is acceptable behavior in our teens, and what our culture brainwashes them into believing is normal.

Chapters One and Two
Bulbous   Ferrule   Piqued   Convex   Erroneous   Fallacies   Inference   Amiable   Astutely   Fulsome   Dexterity   Forgery   Monograph   Resignation   Grievously   Carouse   Betwixt   Wench   Anon   Bemused   Squires   Twain   Amiability   Scion   Bewailing   Inquest   Eccentric   Corroborated   Cardiac   Organic   Prosaic   Tenant   Impassive   Indorse   Untenanted   Sparsely   Trivial   Chimerical 

Chapters Three and Four
Impenetrable  Realm   Spectral   Hitherto   Diabolical   Vestry   Flippantly   Obliged   Congenial   Seclusion   Immaterial   Acrid   Convict   Singular   Bewildering   Inquest   Coherent   Baronet   Pugnacious   Expedient   Cajoled   Tariff   Utmost   Speculation   Trifles   Vengeance     Languid   Loiterers   Benevolent   Wily   Sauntering   Reverence 


Chapters Five and Six
Articulate   Conjunction   Ample   Insignificant   Venerable   Entailed   Endeavor   Besmirched   Proposition   Wrung   Sovereign   Rueful   Conjectured   Audacious   Injunctions   Bias   Imprudent   Exalted      Comrade   Bramble   Waning   Equestrian   Ferocity   Wanton   Commutation   Atrocious   Sombre  Discern   Balustrade   Dias   Copses   Melancholy 

Chapters Seven and Eight
Efface   Pallid   Erroneous   Propitious   Excursion   Credulous   Placid   Reproved   Cordial   Grazier   Interminable   Irretrievably   Tinged   Irresolution   Induce   Monoliths   Scarred   Antiquarian   Disapprobation   Choleric   Furtive   Cunning   Surmise   Conjecture   Concealment   Belated   Unmitigated   Conscientious   Incriminating   Personification


Chapters Nine and Ten
Reproached   Gesticulated   Haughty   Peremptory   Displeasure   Rueful   Brusquely   Conjectures   Upshot   Cultivating   Floundering   Agitation   Warders   Unmitigated   Crevice   Vile   Tor   Indelibly   Abortive   Spectral   Distrait   Abetting   Faculties   Atone   Deluged   Sodden   Morass   Pittance   Connoisseur   Cavalier

Chapters Eleven and Twelve
Delicacy   Retiring   Almoner   Torrent   Rendezvous   Inconclusive   Incessant  Abhor   Reticent   Magnates   Warren   Effigy   Incredulity   Urchin   Toiling   Furtive   Indignation   Decanter   Dissuading   Incisive   Contrived   Tenacity   Vehemence   Piteous   Precipitous   Paroxysm   Ruffianly   Roisterer (in the book as Roysterer)   Afoot   Juncture

Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen
Perceptibly   Recital   Dictated   Precipice   Sensational   Analogous   Reverential   Loath   Fulfillment   Void   Hampered   Halted   Admirable   Ambush   Serrated   Inexorably   Inert   Hackles   Delirious   Vulnerable   Insensible   Feeble   Endangered   Doddering   Defiant   Baulk   Swathed   Weal   Mottled   Hale  Peninsula   Quagmires   Miasmatic   Undulations   Perilous   Morass   Fathomed  

Chapter Fifteen
Atrocious   Barrister   Purloined   Consumptive   Disrepute   Infamy   Entomology   Ingenious   Finesse   Diabolical   Penetrate   Coincide   Specious   Infernal   Lair   Accomplice   Grotesque   Expedient   Audacity   Instructive   Elucidate   Waning   Confidant   Lisping   Reproach   Implicating   Fidelity 

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