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Cultural Literacy Words and Words Often Confused
All from 4th quarter
10
English
9th Grade
03/17/2011

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Term
Jeeves
Definition
servant who appears in comic novels and short stories about the English upper class.

Know - to understand
no - opposite of yes
Term
Falstaff
Definition
character of Shakespear, tells of his bravery, but is really a coward.

Lay - "to place" - also past tense of lie

Lie - "to recline"
Term
George Eliot
Definition
penname of Mary Ann Evans; 19th century English author.

Lead - "to guide"
Led - "past tense"
Lead - metal
Term
Friedrich Neitzsche
Definition
19th century german philosopher; he developed the idea of a superior human who was not bound by convetional notions of right and wrong.


learn - aquire info
teach - give info
Term
Original Sin
Definition
the sin of Adam and Eve, and the essential event of the fall of man.

loose - free
lose - misplace
loss - something that is lost
Term
Soren Kierkegaard
Definition
19th century Danish phylospher, and he wrote a lot about fear and lonliness that he believed came from a religion.

mail - letter
male - gender
Term
lean and hungry look
Definition
phrase from Shakespear's Julius Caesar, means someone is dangerous.

miner - digs in ground
minor - not legally an adult
- not major
Term
Walter Mitty
Definition
character in a short story; dreams of an extraodinary life to excape his ordinary existence

past - n, adj, prep
passed - verb
Term
Ramadan
Definition
a holy month in the Islamic calendar. Moslems fast between sunrise and sunset during each day of Ramadan
peace - "tranquility or freedom from war"
piece - a part or fragment
Term
papacy
Definition
officer position of the Pope.

principal - school admin. sum of, primary
principle - idea or a doctrine
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