English 10 -- Period 8

For homework, please answer questions 1-6 on "The Doll's House".  To see a copy of the story, look at my blog entry for Thursday, September 24th.

Your ten new vocabulary words are as follows:

1. constraint:  something which restricts one's actions or power
2. toady:  one who tries to gain an advantage through pleasing someone (or through flattery)
3. insipid:  weak
4. intrepid:  fearless
5. insolent:  boldly rude or disrespectful
6. abiotic:  of or characterized by the absence of living things; a non-living part of the environment
7.  fiend:  a wicked or cruel being
8. camaraderie:  friendship based on trust
9. existential:  concerned with existence, especially human existence;
   affirming or implying the existence of a thing
10. insidious: sinister or menacing
11. egotastic: being into yourself so much that it becomes annoying