ap english language and composition - daisy miller vocabulary
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Daisy Miller: A Study Vocabulary Part I
Vevey resort town on the shore of Lake Geneva (Leman) Les Trois Couronnes Hotel The Three Crowns (still a first-‐class hotel in Vevey) watering places a watering place is a summer resort (for the rich) either with medicinal waters, as a spa, or near the ocean. Ocean House, Newport, Rhode Island, and Congress Hall, Saratoga Springs, New York, were the two most famous at the time. Men unless very rich did not stay at these places all summer, as the women did, so they were in great demand for social functions. pension tourist boarding house; i.e., meals were served at a common table; American plan resorts included meals with lodging, but not European plan Dent du Midi high Swiss mountain Castle of Chillon famous castle dating from medieval times. Protestant leaders were kept there, as well as the republican, Bonnivard, about whom Byron is supposed to have written The Prisoner of Chillon Geneva large city near Vevey, on lake of same name. Geneva was home to John Calvin (1509-‐1564), founder of Calvinism, the Protestant sect which strongly influenced the New England Puritans camphor a strong-‐smelling oil from camphor tree wood, used medicinally as a stimulant, expectorant, and diaphoretic. Many women of the time had vague complaints, sometimes psychosomatic but not always, since modern scientific medicine was just developing indisposed mildly ill; but also, averse, disinclined attache foreign diplomat urchin a small, mischievous boy, a scamp knickerbockers full breeches or pants gathered and banded just below the knee, from a fictitious name used by Washington Irving, alluding to the Dutch origin of New York spindleshanks long, thin legs, like a spindle, or rod used in spinning cravat neckerchief or tie, after Croatian mercenaries in France alpenstock long staff with iron point, used by mountain climbers in Alps interlocutor someone who takes part in a conversation ever so much trite phrase repeatedly used by common people vivacious lively, full of animation and spirit blowing (slang) loosing one's temper, yelling, blowing up, like a boiler
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muslin summer cotton fabric, now used for bed sheets parasol umbrella to shade from the sun, carried by every young lady in the summer flounce strip of gathered or pleated material attached along its upper edge to another surface prospect view of the scenery parapet low wall along a cliff Simplon high pass over the Alps to Italy; the railroad and tunnel had not been built yet in 1877, so it was a frightening trip by horse-‐drawn coach insipid dull, lacking flavor or zest coquette woman who flirts with men; after word for cockerel visage face Daisy Miller in spite of the American artist's fanciful heraldry here, obviously the name was chosen for a very common person. Her only claim to being a "princess" is her father's wealth, which was earned, not inherited, and her own personality ejaculated exclaimed, spoke out abruptly or passionately had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward jocular, euphemistic way of saying "died" Schenectady city in upstate New York (not a place where people of high society lived, as New York, Boston, or Newport) querulous complaining, fretful, peevish cars railway cars, of course, (or perhaps, in a horse-‐drawn trolley car) since the automobile hadn't yet been invented inconduite impropriety drive in a horse-‐drawn carriage or trolley car, since automobiles had not yet been invented courier tourist guide, but really just a servant who accompanies tourists as an interpreter and facilitator; later in the story, termed a cicerone dyspepsia stomach pain or trouble furbelows ruffle, flounce, or other showy ornamentation to a dress, which at that time often was so elaborate it trailed on the ground tournure French word for "bearing"
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Part II January Rome was not visited much by tourists in the summer, because of fears of malaria. intime French, intimate, cozy-‐-‐but not in a sexual sense Cherbuliez's Paule Mere 1865 novel, rather out-‐of-‐fashion then. Society breaks up a relationship after malicious gossip-‐-‐a story parallel to this one, but Mrs. Costello doesn't seem to be aware of it. jocosely jokingly, humorously, wittily presently before long, without undue delay, soon; also (but not here), at the present time the infant Hannibal was later a general of Carthage and enemy of Rome compatriot fellow countryman; i.e., an American like Winterbourne Giovanelli Italian name, meaning "young man" the hour for customarily, society people went out for a drive in their carriages in late afternoon, circling the square Pincio a Roman main street, garden, and district; (society people did not walk if they could drive) get the fever malaria ("Roman fever") was endemic in Rome until the 1930s, but it was not known that it was carried by mosquitoes, only that it was caused by being out late at night, especially in the summer. Hawthorne's daughter, Una, contracted malaria in Italy and fell sick in Rome. glass in one eye monocle, fashionable single eyeglass nosegay fragrant flower on his coat lapel-‐-‐but the sign of not quite a gentleman imperious domineering, commanding obsequious with fawning, subservient attentiveness urbane polite, finished, polished manners music master, penny-a-liner music teacher, freelance journalist, or poor artist-‐-‐i.e., not a gentleman and thus not worthy of notice spurious false; outwardly similar but deceitfully lacking genuine qualities low-lived foreigner foreigners could not assimilate into American high society unless they had an aristocratic title, or, perhaps, independent wealth rendezvous French, pre-‐arranged meeting amoroso Italian, lover, sweetheart romancers writers of romances, or imaginative stories inscrutable mysterious, hard to understand
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audacity intrepid boldness, bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraint cavaliers knights; gentlemen, especially horsemen protectors victoria from 1844, after Queen Victoria of Great Britain, a low, four-‐wheeled carriage with a folding top and a raised seat in front for the driver expire die edified instructed or improved spiritually or morally (used ironically here)