[transcribed 2021-06-02]

**Directions: Read each of the sentences and underline the specific word or words that are the context clue to the meaning of the underlined vocabulary word.**

 1. “Her tastes were simple because she had never been able to afford any other, but she was as unhappy as though she had married beneath her; for women have no _**caste**_ or class, _their beauty, grace and charm serving them for birth or family, their natural delicacy, their instinctive elegance, their nimbleness of wit, and their only mark of rank,_ and put the slum girl on level with the highest lady in the land.”


 2. “She imagined _silent_ _**antechambers**_, heavy with Oriental tapestries, lit by torches in lofty bronze sockets, with two footmen in knee-breeches sleeping in large arm-chairs, overcome by the heavy warmth of the stove.”


 3. “Instead of being _delighted_, as her husband hoped, she flung the invitation _**petulantly**_ across the table, murmuring: ‘what do you want me to do with this?’”


 4. “She danced madly, ecstatically, drunk with pleasure, with no thought for anything, in the triumphant of her beauty, in the pride of her success, in a cloud of happiness made up of this _**universal**_ homage and admiration, of the desires she had aroused, of the _completeness_ of a victory so dear to her feminine heart.”


 5. “She remained in her evening clothes, _lacking strength_ to get into bed, huddled on a chair, without _**volition**_ or _power of thought_.”


 6. “She had become like all the other strong, hard, coarse women of poor households. Her hair was _badly done_, her skirts were _**awry**_, her hands were red.”