Friday, September 25, 2009

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge

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1. "The sentinels, facing the banks of the stream, might have been statues to adorn the bridge."
2. "Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him."
3. "Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell."
4. "They hurt his ear like the thrust of a knife"
5. "he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulun."

Vocabulary words:
1. acclivity (n): an upward slope of ground
2. adorn (v): to be an ornement to
3. hemp (n): the fiber used to make rope
4. driftwood (n): wood drifting in the water
5. chafed (v): to become vexed our irritated
6. inglorious (adj): shameful, disgraceful
7. periodicity (n): tendency of recurring at regular intervals
8. noose (n): the loop formed in a rope
9. keen (adj): sharp and quick
10. giddy (adj): dizzy, unsteady

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