READING LOG 2 Book name: Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy) Pages Read: 38 - 58 Summary:
Walking home from the bonfire, Olly Dowden has a conversation with Mrs. Yeobright in which they discuss Mrs. Yeobright's resistance to her niece's marriage, and eventual acquiescence. When they part ways, Mrs. Yeobright runs into the reddleman, whom she recognizes as Diggory Venn, the son of a local dairyman, and who reveals to her that Thomasin Yeobright is the woman asleep in the back of the wagon. It turns out that Thomasin and Damon Wildeve were not married that day: they had gone to Anglebury to be married, but there was a technical problem with the marriage license, and Thomasin, upset, had run away. Mrs. Yeobright believes that the family, and especially Thomasin, will be disgraced by this failed marriage; they go to Damon Wildeve's home, the Quiet Woman Inn, and insist that Damon go through with marrying Thomasin. He is somewhat casual about the whole affair, but eventually agrees. The serious discussion in interrupted by the entrance of the local farmers and workers, who sing wedding tunes in honor of the couple, believing them to be already married. After everyone finally leaves, Damon notices that the bonfire at Mistover Knapp, another town, is still burning, and resolves, "Yes, by Heaven, I must go to her." Fifteen Vocabulary Words:
Tartarean - extremely troublesome, annoying. Trasversing through a snowy landscape is tartarean with excess luggage. Imprudent - without thought of the consequences; lacking in judgment or caution; rash; indiscreet. This incident clearly angered his mother and unfortunately she behaved in an extremely imprudent manner. Acquiescence - agreement or consent without protest. It is hard to imagine that they are there without the knowledge and acquiescence of the Iraqi Government. Conveyance - the transfer of the ownership of real property from one person to another. You may also find conveyances of freehold estates by deeds of bargain and sale enrolled on the Close Rolls in C 54 after 1535. Extemporized - to furnish or contrive (things) in a makeshift way to meet a pressing need; improvise. Keyboard continuo can be extemporized ad lib from a figured bass, but the music is complete with three basses. Abate - to make less in amount, degree, force. The Court held that the words required the taking of measures to abate low frequency noise from the lift. Madrigal - a short poem, usually a love poem, which can be set to music. Program includes madrigals, Gospel music, Icelandic folk music, and an opportunity to meet the singers afterward. Nicety - the quality or state of being nice, scrupulous, precise, or accurate. No rule-of-thumb method will suffice, and only long experience can provide that nicety of judgment which is so necessary. Ingenuous - free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere. For me, his films show an ingenuous authenticity for the portrayal of his characters. Profuse - giving or pouring forth freely; generous, often to excess. A garden spot, surrounded by a profuse growth of shrubbery. Imperiously - overbearing, arrogant, domineering. It here speaks with the imperious voice we are accustomed to hear from the morality of duty. Amplitude - the quality of being ample or the amount or degree to which a thing extends. These are the amplitude of the fluctuations, and the fact that the vacuum energy now, is incredibly near zero. Zenith - the point directly overhead in the sky or on the celestial sphere. All specifications in terms of seeing apply to the seeing at the zenith distance of the object.
Picture taken from: http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cms/imagedb/albums/userpics/zenith-pic1.gif
Factotum - a person hired to do all sorts of work; handyman. Enter, stage right, Carol Willis, chief factotum and all-round good egg. Epigram - a short poem with a witty or satirical point. By page 46 I'd found the epigram for my next book and a quote for a text message to a depressed friend.
READING LOG 2
Book name: Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)
Pages Read: 38 - 58
Summary:
Walking home from the bonfire, Olly Dowden has a conversation with Mrs. Yeobright in which they discuss Mrs. Yeobright's resistance to her niece's marriage, and eventual acquiescence. When they part ways, Mrs. Yeobright runs into the reddleman, whom she recognizes as Diggory Venn, the son of a local dairyman, and who reveals to her that Thomasin Yeobright is the woman asleep in the back of the wagon. It turns out that Thomasin and Damon Wildeve were not married that day: they had gone to Anglebury to be married, but there was a technical problem with the marriage license, and Thomasin, upset, had run away. Mrs. Yeobright believes that the family, and especially Thomasin, will be disgraced by this failed marriage; they go to Damon Wildeve's home, the Quiet Woman Inn, and insist that Damon go through with marrying Thomasin. He is somewhat casual about the whole affair, but eventually agrees. The serious discussion in interrupted by the entrance of the local farmers and workers, who sing wedding tunes in honor of the couple, believing them to be already married. After everyone finally leaves, Damon notices that the bonfire at Mistover Knapp, another town, is still burning, and resolves, "Yes, by Heaven, I must go to her."
Fifteen Vocabulary Words:
Tartarean - extremely troublesome, annoying.
Trasversing through a snowy landscape is tartarean with excess luggage.
Imprudent - without thought of the consequences; lacking in judgment or caution; rash; indiscreet.
This incident clearly angered his mother and unfortunately she behaved in an extremely imprudent manner.
Acquiescence - agreement or consent without protest.
It is hard to imagine that they are there without the knowledge and acquiescence of the Iraqi Government.
Conveyance - the transfer of the ownership of real property from one person to another.
You may also find conveyances of freehold estates by deeds of bargain and sale enrolled on the Close Rolls in C 54 after 1535.
Extemporized - to furnish or contrive (things) in a makeshift way to meet a pressing need; improvise.
Keyboard continuo can be extemporized ad lib from a figured bass, but the music is complete with three basses.
Abate - to make less in amount, degree, force.
The Court held that the words required the taking of measures to abate low frequency noise from the lift.
Madrigal - a short poem, usually a love poem, which can be set to music.
Program includes madrigals, Gospel music, Icelandic folk music, and an opportunity to meet the singers afterward.
Nicety - the quality or state of being nice, scrupulous, precise, or accurate.
No rule-of-thumb method will suffice, and only long experience can provide that nicety of judgment which is so necessary.
Ingenuous - free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
For me, his films show an ingenuous authenticity for the portrayal of his characters.
Profuse - giving or pouring forth freely; generous, often to excess.
A garden spot, surrounded by a profuse growth of shrubbery.
Imperiously - overbearing, arrogant, domineering.
It here speaks with the imperious voice we are accustomed to hear from the morality of duty.
Amplitude - the quality of being ample or the amount or degree to which a thing extends.
These are the amplitude of the fluctuations, and the fact that the vacuum energy now, is incredibly near zero.
Zenith - the point directly overhead in the sky or on the celestial sphere.
All specifications in terms of seeing apply to the seeing at the zenith distance of the object.
Factotum - a person hired to do all sorts of work; handyman.
Enter, stage right, Carol Willis, chief factotum and all-round good egg.
Epigram - a short poem with a witty or satirical point.
By page 46 I'd found the epigram for my next book and a quote for a text message to a depressed friend.
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