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**__THE HIDING PLACE :__**

Clare O'Malley -
**CHAPTER 1 spinsters ** How could we have guessed as we sat there - two middle aged spinsters and an old man - that in place of memories we were about to be given adventure such as we had never dreamed of? How could we have guessed as we sat there - two middle aged unmarried women and an old man - that in place of memories we were about to be given adventure such as we had never dreamed of?
 * definition - a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.**

I remembered the day six or seven years earlier when he had first come into the shop, so ragged and woebegone that I had assumed that he was one of the beggars who had the Beje marked as a sure meal. ===definition - beset with woe; affected by woe, esp. in appearance. I remembered the day six or seven years earlier when he had first come into the shop, so ragged and beset with woe that I had assumed that he was one of the beggars who had the Beje marked as a sure meal. ===
 * woebegone **

...the itinerant clock mender who trudged on foot throughout the land...
===definition - traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister (ministering), judge, or sales person. ...the ministering clock mender who trudged on foot throughout the land... ===

**CHAPTER 2 reverently ** Betsie lifted it reverently from the box and held it to the patch of light that... Betsie lifted it respectfully from the box and held it to the patch of light that... **
 * definition - feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful.

Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth. Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the afterlife depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth. **
 * hereafter **
 * definition - after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along, afterlife.

For sleep she partitioned off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed. For sleep she separated off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed. **
 * partitioned **
 * definition - an interior wall or barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas.

Tante Bep, with her perpetual, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least. Tante Bep, with her everlasting, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least. remonstrated ** "And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life." "And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life." **
 * perpetual **
 * definition - continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.**
 * 
 * definition - to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.

**Is this changed?**
Always before when the pain from the gallstones had got too bad she'd had an operation. **definition - an abnormal stone-like mass, usually of cholesterol, formed in the gallbladder or bile passages. Always before when the pain from the stone-like masses had got too bad she'd had an operation.
 * CHAPTER 3**
 * gallstones

Some faded daguerrotypes of children who by now must have children and grandchildren of their own. **definition - a picture made by this process. Some faded pictures, made by certain processes, of children who by now must have children and grandchildren of their own.
 * daguerrotypes

implicitly "All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, "what do they really prove?" "All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them unwaveringly, "what do they really prove?" **
 * definition -** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">**implied strongly, rather than expressly stated; unwaveringly.

definition - t<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">o <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">disapprove of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">strongly, or to criticize or correct, esp. gently. "Corrie!" said Betsie disapprovingly. "Your skirt!"
 * reprovingly**
 * "Corrie!" said Betsie reprovingly. "Your skirt!"

infinitesimal Father was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an infinitesimal part from the array before them on the workbench. **definition - indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;"> Mrs. M : < )
 * Father was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an exceedingly small part from the array before them on the workbench. **
 * Clare - good job. Don't forget to rewrite the original sentence - using your newfound definition - but not changing the meaning of the sentence.

Good job of making the corrections. 4/26

Catherine Zastrow-**


 * __Itinerant-__ ** (adj) Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty or **(n)** One who travels from place to place.
 * __Resplendent-__ ** Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.
 * __Reveling-__ ** To take great pleasure or delight or to engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
 * __Careened__ ** __-__To lurch or swerve while in motion. Or it is to rush headlong or carelessly; career.
 * __Perpetually-__ ** Lasting for eternity or continuing or lasting for an indefinitely long time.

“Hans was passing cakes in the back room, as was Toos in the front, wearing the nearest thing to a smile that her perpetually downdrawn lips would permit.”
 * __Deliberate-__ ** Done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional.

“Willem believed it was part of a deliberate and largescale move against Jews;…”
 * __Scrimped-__ ** To economize severely. To be excessively sparing with or of. To cut or make too small or scanty.

“He scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews in Wilversum…”
 * __Humdrum-__ ** Lacking variety or excitement; dull. See Synonyms at boring, dull or monotonous talk or routine.

“I didn’t know it then—nor, indeed, that there was any new future to prepare for in a life as humdrum and predictable as mine.”
 * __Personage-__ ** A character in a literary work or a person or a person of distinction.

“A deep-rimmed brown bonnet with a cluster of lavender velvet roses proclaimed in every line the personage who had picked it out.”
 * __Guilder-__ ** The primary unit of currency in the Netherlands before the adoption of the euro.

“…--and indeed every Saturday Father faithfully paid her one guilder.”
 * __Deceit-__ ** The act or practice of deceiving; deception. A stratagem; a trick. The quality of being deceitful; falseness.

“Father, who was incapable of practicing deceit or even recognizing it, took a long and earnest sniff.”
 * __Zeal-__ ** Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance.

“Tante Jans seized the pot and glared into it with righteous zeal.”
 * __Idly-__ ** Avoiding work or employment; lazy.

“What kind of hiding place, I wondered idly as I watched Father’s brown beard rise and fall with the words.” “At last, Amsterdam, even bigger than Haarlem, with its bewilderment of strange streets and canals.”
 * Bewilderment- ** A situation of perplexity or confusion; a tangle.


 * __Contradicting-__ ** To assert or express the opposite of (a statement).

“…; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other’s company.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

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 * Catherine-good start. You have definitions and, for the most part, sentences from the book that contain the words chosen. The last part of the assignment needs to be completed. Look at #5 and #7 on the homework page. Each entry is not always complete. 4/26**=====

Ali Walton:

CHAPTER 1:

hyacinths:

How could I foresee as I zipped around the corner, that one summer day, when the hyacinths in the commercial bulb flats nearby were ripe and brown.......

DEF: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">a bulbous plant

How could I foresee as I zipped around the corner, that one summer day, when the bulbous plants were ripe and brown....

Ponderous:

He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside father......

DEF: of great weight; heavy; massive. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">This is the definition for bulk - it is correct, but I think you want the definition for ponderous here.

He sank his massive bulk into a chair beside father..... What about the word 'ponderous'? That is the word you are defining.

Bulk:

He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside father....

DEF: the body of a living creature.

He sank his ponderous body into a chair beside father....

Chorales:

People called out requests- popular songs, selections from Bach chorales, hymns....

DEF: a group of singers specializing in singing church music; choir.

People called out requests- popular songs, selections from Bach's choir, hymns....

Scrimped:

He had scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews....

DEF: limit, to keep on short allowance; provide sparingly for

He had limited /stinted (vocab word)!!! and saved enough money to build a house for elderly Jews....

CHAPTER 2:

Pernicious:

Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.

DEF:causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful

Betsie had been born with harmful anemia.

Anemia:

Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.

DEF: a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness

Betsie had been born with a harmful reduced number of red blood cells.

Millinery:

The van Dyvers owned the millinery shop two doors down.

DEF: women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.

The van Dyvers owned the women's hat store two doors down.

Buttonhook:

"I know!" I said as the buttonhook in Betsie's swift fingers....

DEF: <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">a small, usually <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">metal <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">hook for pulling <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">buttons <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">throughbuttonholes, as on gloves, <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">dresses, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">breeches

"I know!" I said as the metal hook in Betsie's swift fingers....

Baleful:

And with a baleful glance at the big brown hat....

DEF: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">full of menacing or malign influences

And with a menacing glance at the big brown hat....

CHAPTER 3:

Threadbare:

....young men in coats with twice-turned collars and threadbare cuffs.

DEF: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">having <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of thewarp and woof, as a fabric, garment

....young men in coats with twice-turned collars and cuffs that have the nap worn off so bad that the threads lay bare.

Perched:

Perched beside me on the bed....

DEF: <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">to <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">settle or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">rest in some elevated position

Rested in an elevated position beside me on the bed.

Tuberculosis:

Tante Bep had tuberculosis.

DEF: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">this disease when affecting <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">the lungs; pulmonary phthisis; <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">consumption

Tante Bep had a disease that affects the lungs.

Mementos:

There were the few pathetic mementos of thirty years....

DEF: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">an object or item <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">that serves to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">remind one of a person,past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir

There were the few pathetic keepsakes of thirty years....

Paraphernalia:

Tante Jans who loved medical paraphernalia of every kind....

DEF: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">equipment,apparatus, or furnishing used in <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">or <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; cursor: default; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.25em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">necessary for a particularactivity

Tante Jans who loved medical equipment of every kind....

===<span style="background-color: transparent; cursor: default; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: static;">Nice job, Ali. Well-chosen words, clearly defined, and used correctly in the rewritten sentences. 4/26 ===

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