Vocabulary+Ch.+10-13

// Reading Assignment #3: The Catcher in the Rye //// p. 66-98. //  ** Chapters 10-13 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. //   16. The band was __putrid__. Buddy singer. Very brassy, but not good brassy--corny brassy.  Decaying or rotting.   17. . . . the whole summer long we played tennis together almost every morning and golf almost  every afternoon. I really got to know her quite __intimately__.  Familiar with...    18. . . . old Ernie turned around on his stool and gave this very phony, __humble__ bow.  Showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance   19. One thing I have, it's a terrific __capacity__. I can drink all night and not even show it, if I'm in  the mood.  The max amount that something can contain.  <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> 20. He got stinking, but I hardly didn't even show it. I just got very cool and __nonchalant__. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> Someone every calm and relaxed. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> 21. Do you mind getting me my __frock__? <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> A type of clothing. <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">// Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions. //
 * 16. putrid || B || ||  A. Ability to contain, absorb, receive and hold  ||
 * 17. intimately || E || ||  B. Rotten  ||
 * 18. humble || F || ||  C. Showing a lack of concern; casual indifference  ||
 * 19. capacity || A || ||  D. Coat; cloak  ||
 * 20. nonchalant || C || ||  E. Privately, personally, very closely  ||
 * 21. frock || D || ||  F. Lowly; unpretentious  ||
 * 21. frock || D || ||  F. Lowly; unpretentious  ||