Vocabulary List Two
(A) Austen's novels engendered, or led to, much interest in Austen herself, but she avoided literary circles and
publicity.
Definition-to produce, cause, or given rise to
Your Sentence -Micheal poems engendered him to be a poet.
(B) Although a private person, Austen apparently was not an introvert; she was lively and outgoing among family and friends.
Definition-a shy person
Your Sentence -A person can be very introvert, but that doesn't mean they are quite.
(C) The family may have regarded Austen's habit of writing in the sitting room as out of the ordinary, but they tolerated this idiosyncrasy.
Definition-the characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like that is peculiar to an individual.
Your Sentence -Everyone has different idiosyncrasy.
(D) What some people would regard as humdrum domestic duties occupied much of Austen's time. I wonder whether she found them as dull as my friends and I would.
Definition-boring
Your Sentence -Humdrum people are not fun to be around.
(E) Austen received much of her education from her father, a teacher and minister. I imagine that he was a serious, learned man who wrote scholarly homilies on religious topics.
Definition-a sermon, usually on a biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature
Your Sentence - Many church going people read lots of homilies.
(F) We might not ascribe an interest in acting to Austen, but such an interest was very much a part of her
character.
Definition-impute
Your Sentence -It's not good for someone else to put their ascribe in someone else business.
(G) She performed in home theatrical shows. Do you think this experience was significant
or inconsequential to Austen as a novelist?
Definition–of little or no importance
Your Sentence - People who don't feel loved feel like their inconsequential to others.
(H) No one could complain that Austen was writing hackneyed stories; her work was never trite or unoriginal.
Definition-stale
Your Sentence -Everyone always complained Mike poems were hackneyed.
(I) Austen considered her older sister Cassandra to be a paragon of talent. She especially admired Cassandra's comic work.
Definition-a model or pattern of excellence or of a particular excellence
Your Sentence -I considered my sister to be very paragon.
(J)
Cassandra wrote lovingly, even poetically, of her sister. Do you know if a family member wrote an elegy to mourn Jane's death in
1817?
Definition-a sad or mournful musical composition, usually in funerals
Your Sentence -I like to listen to elegy music at funerals.