“Marigolds” by Eugenia collins Short Story Vocabulary Assignment
Short Story Vocabulary Assignment “Marigolds” Find the sentence in the short story Marigold and write it down as an example of how the word is used. Next, identify the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection) . Is the sentence in the text a simple, compound, complex, or compound- complex sentence? Write your own sentence using the story vocabulary and the same structure of the sentence found in the book. 1. shantytown 2. grit 3. chary 4. inexplicable 5. idleness 6. prospect 7. ostensibly 8. exploits 9. exuberance 10. whittled 11. Furies 12. squalor 13. contrition 14. poignancy