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These are flashcards for my final on the book Ethan Frome and vocabulary in the book, as well
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11th Grade
06/18/2010
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fatuous
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foolish, silly
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poignant
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emotionally painful or sensitive
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Mattie is a good
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dancer
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Ethan finally finds glue at Mrs. _____ store.
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Homan's
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Setting with a symbolic meaning
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Starkfield
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Zeena's new doctor
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Buck
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This character took Mattie's trunk to the train station
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Daniel Byrne
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Said, "I can't get along alone."
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Mattie
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The most significant symbol in the novel
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the pickle dish
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The profession of the narrorator
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engineer
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In the end, we realize Zeena's illness was just a way to _____ Ethan
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manipulate
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Extreme poverty
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Destitute
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Ethan was jealous of
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Denis Eady
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The narrorator stays the night at the Frome farm because of a
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blizzard
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School House Hill is a place where villagers went
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coasting (sledding)
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awkward or clumsy
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loutish
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constant, never stopping
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incessant
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Zeena first shows her suspicions by not leaving what out?
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The key.
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Ethan wanted desperately to go where with Mattie?
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West.
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Ethan cannot leave his wife primarily because of
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finances
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Mattie and Ethan decide that _____ is the answer
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Suicide
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said, "If Mattie had died, Ethan might have lived."
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Ruth Hale
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Ethan takes Mattie here to reminisce about the past
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Shadow Pond
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In the movie, the narrorator's profession was changed to that of a
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minister.
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Andrew Hale was the father of
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Ned
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Zeena goes here to see a new doctor
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Bettsbridge
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Ned and ____ were engaged
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Ruth
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Zeena planned to send Mattie back to
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Stamford
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wave-like motion
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undulation
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quarrelsome
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querulous
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She was supposed to be a bridesmaid
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Mattie
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Assists Ethan with his lumber business
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Jotham
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Mattie sells this for $50
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A piano
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Ethan insists on taking Mattie to meet the
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train
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Ethan asks him for an advance on his payment
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Mr. Hale
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Mattie was supposed to be on the train at
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six
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obliterate
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to blow up, destroy
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discomfiture
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frustrated or embarrassed
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squalid
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gloomy appearance
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inexorable
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unchangeable
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slatternly
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dirty, neglected
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scintillating
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sparkling or brilliant
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constraint
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holding back feeling
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conspicuous
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stands out, obvious
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obstinate
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stubborn
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plaintive
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mournful, sad
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reticent
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hesitant
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volubility
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talkative
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effrontery
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shameless boldness
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stoicism
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indifference
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taciturn
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reserved in speech, silent
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convivial
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pleasant, good natured
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declivity
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slope or hill
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reverberation
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echo
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perceptible
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detectable, able to be observed
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spectral
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ghostly
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aggrieved
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troubled, upset
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