3. Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words above 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. Use clues in the following sentences combined with your prior knowledge, to make informed guesses about what the underlined words mean.
4. For a time he was obliged to labor to make himself believe.
5. Obliged: to constrain by physical, moral, or legal force
6. Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.
7. Despondent: feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression
8. Or, on the other hand, he might be a man heretofore doomed to peace and obscurity , but, in reality, made to shine in war.
9. Obscurity: the state of being shrouded in or hidden by darkness; not able to be clearly seen or easily distinguished
10. As he looked all about him and pondered upon the mystic gloom, he began to believe that at any moment the ominous distance might be aflare and the rolling crashes of an engagement come to his ears.
21. Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words above 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. Use clues in the following sentences combined with your prior knowledge, to make informed guesses about what the underlined words mean.
22. There was a sudden change from the ponderous infantry of theory to the light and speedy infantry of practice.
23. Ponderous: unwieldy or clumsy because of weight and size
24. A house standing placidly in different fields had to him an ominous look
25. Placidly: serenely or calmly free of interruption or disturbance
28. With the passionate song of the bullets and the banshee shrieks of shells were mingled loud catcalls and bits of facetious advice concerning places of safety. .
29. Facetious: joking or jesting often inappropriately
30. He suddenly lost concern for himself, and forgot to look at a menacing fate.
31. Menacing: : to make a show of intention to harm
32. If he had thought the regiment was about to be annihilated perhaps he could have amputated himself from it.
39. Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words above 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. Use clues in the following sentences combined with your prior knowledge, to make informed guesses about what the underlined words mean.
40. The red, formidable difficulties of war had been vanquished.
48. For a time he was obliged to labor to make himself believe.
49. It suddenly occurred to the youth that the fight in which he had been was, after all, but perfunctory popping.
50. Perfunctory: characterized by lacking in interest or enthusiasm; characterized by routine or superficiality
51. The sergeant, taking not of this, gave pause to his elaborate history while he administered a sardonic comment. "Be keerful, honey, you'll be a-ketchin' flies," he said.
52. Sardonic: : disdainfully or skeptically humorous
58. Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words above 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. Use clues in the following sentences combined with your prior knowledge, to make informed guesses about what the underlined words mean.
59. From the heaving tangle issued exhortations, commands, imprecations .
65. 4. In a defeat there would be a roundabout vindication of himself. He thought it would prove, in a manner, that he had fled early because of his superior powers of perception.
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93. The voices of the cannon were mingled in a long and interminable row.
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111. Having stirred this prodigious uproar, ... the brigade, after a little time, came marching airily out again.
123. The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky.
124. Bedraggled: wet and limp by or as if by rain, soiled and stained