2. Vocabu-Lit lesson 19 By Dr. Orso

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

4. About the passage… by George MacDonald, 1864. (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.

5. Listen and Read

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

7. 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.

8. Cease  Verb  To Stop

9. Ferocious  Cruel  Savage  Very mean  adjective

10. Festering  Decaying  Rotting  Adjective

11. Foresight  Think ahead  Think for the future  noun

12. hideous  Very bad  Horrible  adjective

13. import  Meaning  Significance

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

15. proceed  To start an action  To go

16. proclamation  Public, formal announcement

17. want  Lack  Something desired or needed