vocab+18-21

// Reading Assignment #5: The Catcher in the Rye p. 135-166 chapter’s 18-21. //   **  VOCABULARY  ** ** Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues  ** // Below are the sentences in which the  //[|//vocabulary//] // words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided. //   28. Jane said he wasn't a show-off. She said he had an __inferiority__ complex. Second-rate; poor  29. The bartender was a __louse__, too. A mean or despicable person  30. He kept telling her she had __aristocratic__ hands. A member of a ruling class or of the nobility.  31. . . . I was careful as hell not to get __boisterous__ or anything. I didn't want anybody to  notice me. . . .  Rough and stormy; violent  32. All of them swimming around in a goddam pot of tea and saying __sophisticated__ stuff to  each other and being charming and phony.  <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Very complex or complicated <span style="color: red; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">33. I have this one stupid aunt with __halitosis__ that kept saying how //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">peace //<span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">ful he looked lying there. <span style="color: red; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;">foul-smelling breath <span style="color: red; font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;"> <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">28. inferiority ||   F   ||   29   || <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">A. Noisy and unruly  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">29. louse ||   A   ||   30   || <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">B. Of an upper class; distinguished  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">30. aristocratic ||   B   ||   33   || <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">C. Bad smelling breath  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">31. boisterous ||   D   ||   31   || <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">D. Strong feelings of inadequacy  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">32. sophisticated ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">E. A person regarded as mean or contemptible  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">33. halitosis ||   C   ||   28   || <span style="font-family: 'TimesNewRoman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">F. Worldly wise; refined  ||