Excerpt from "Self-Reliance"

"To be great is to be misunderstood." Understand what Ralph Waldo Emerson meant by this quote from his essay.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Self-Reliance, Where I Lived, poems about transcendental thinking, All I Really Need to Know, Into the Wild (excerpts), Into the Wild, A View from Mount Ritter, multi-genre research project sample, Sparky, Charles M. Schulz
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  1. conviction
    an unshakable belief in something without need for proof
    There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion
  2. bestow
    give as a gift
    that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till
  3. conspiracy
    a group banded together to achieve some harmful purpose
    Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
  4. aversion
    a feeling of intense dislike
    The virtue is most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion!
  5. nonconformist
    someone who refuses to conform to standards of conduct
    Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
  6. hinder
    prevent the progress or accomplishment of
    He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.
  7. integrity
    moral soundness
    Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind...
  8. hobgoblin
    an object of dread or apprehension
    A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
  9. consistency
    uniformity or stability in arrangement, behavior, or quality
    With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
  10. contradict
    be in opposition to
    Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
  11. encumber
    hold back, impede, or weigh down
    His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance office increases the number of accidents; and it may be a question whether machinery does not encumber
  12. entrench
    fix firmly or securely
    whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms some vigor of wild virtue
Created on Sun Nov 16 01:12:36 EST 2014 (updated Sun Nov 16 21:40:10 EST 2014)

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