<p>English Literature: Of Pride and Prejudice Name: Vocabulary: Chapters 1 – 9</p><p>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. Next, find a dictionary definition and then use the word correctly in a sentence of your own.</p><p>1.Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own:</p><p>2.I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own: 3.The ladies were somewhat more fortunate, for they had the advantage of ascertaining from an upper window, that he wore a blue coat and rode a black horse.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own:</p><p>4." I would not be so fastidious as you are," cried Bingley, "for a kingdom! Upon my honour, I never met with so many pleasant girls in my life, as I have this evening. . . ."</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own: 5.Elizabeth listened in silence, but was not convinced . . . with more quickness of observation and less pliancy of temper than her sister . . . . she was very little disposed to approve them.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own:</p><p>6.For though elated by his rank, it did not render him supercilious; on the contrary, he was all attention to every body.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own: 7. . . . and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.--Every savage can dance.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own:</p><p>8. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own:</p><p>9. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!</p><p>What do you THINK it means?</p><p>Dictionary Definition:</p><p>Use the word in a sentence of your own: Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.</p><p>____1. caprice A. discovering ____2. circumspection B. haughty; disdainful ____3. ascertaining C. effectiveness ____4. fastidious D. impulsive change of mind ____5. pliancy E. meticulous; difficult to please ____6. supercilious F. prudence ____7. vogue G. a natural attraction to ____8. affinity H. flexibility ____9. efficacy I. fashion; popularity</p>