Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 5

This list covers The Pigman and "The Road Not Taken."
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  1. impatience
    irritation with anything that causes delay
    “Mr. Pignati,” I said with an air of impatience, “Miss Truman and I have many other stops to make today. I mean, where would the L & J Fund be if we simply sat around...all day and went to zoos?”
  2. behalf
    as the agent of or on someone's part
    “On behalf of the L & J Fund I accept this check.”
  3. gesture
    show, express, or direct through movement
    He gestured us back into the living room and then moved down the hall to the room at the far end—the one with the black curtains hanging on the side of the entrance.
  4. attendant
    someone who waits on or takes care of the needs of another
    The thing that made me stop going to the zoo a few years ago was the way one attendant fed the sea lions.
  5. imaginative
    marked by independence and creativity in thought or action
    He climbed up on the big diving platform in the middle of the pool and unimaginatively just dropped the fish into the water.
  6. diverge
    extend in a different direction
    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
  7. undergrowth
    the brush beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth
  8. claim
    an informal right to something
    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear
  9. tread
    stomp heavily or roughly
    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
  10. hence
    from this time
    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence
Created on Thu Apr 22 16:14:56 EDT 2021 (updated Wed Apr 28 14:33:28 EDT 2021)

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