Vocabu-Lit lesson 19 By Dr. Orso

Fiction  Noun  literature comprising works of imaginative narration  What are some of your favorite fiction books?

About the passage… by George MacDonald, (This is only part of a bigger story.)  A king and queen, after some time, have a bay princess (daughter). The King’s sister (Old Princess Makemnoit) is very jealous of the new baby, and puts a curse on her to have no gravity.  The little princess loves to swim, and when she swims, she gets her gravity back! This leads to the proposal that if she could be brought to cry, it might break the curse. The kingdom wants to break the curse.  Mean Princess Makemnoit discovers that her niece loves the lake. The water is drained from the lake, the springs are stopped up, and the rain stops.

Listen and Read

Master Words These are the master words you will study in this selection.  Cease  Festering  Hideous  Pine  Proclamation  Ferocious  Foresight  Import  Proceed  Want

Context Clues  As you read, look for context clues in the story.  Circle any words that give clues to the meaning of the master words.

Cease  Verb  To Stop

Ferocious  Cruel  Savage  Very mean  adjective

Festering  Decaying  Rotting  Adjective

Foresight  Think ahead  Think for the future  noun

hideous  Very bad  Horrible  adjective

import  Meaning  Significance

pine Crave To want something so badly that one waste away wanting it

proceed  To start an action  To go

proclamation  Public, formal announcement

want  Lack  Something desired or needed