schadenfreude
noun pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune.
- Do you think the narrator's landlady Mrs. Hale or the town "oracle" Harmon Gow feel schadenfreude when they remember Ethan Frome's "smash up."
- What in the prologue would support or refute your response?
Please respond in approximately 100 words on the back of today's vocabulary quiz. You may use your text.
Ethan
Frome vocabulary
2 quiz on Tuesday, April 11
1. obscure- (adjective)-
uncertain, concealed
2. incredulous- (adjective)-
disbelieving, mistrustful, suspicious
3. opulence- (adjective)- great wealth
or luxuriousness
4. latent- (adjective)-not yet
developed, in a budding state
5. disconsolate- (adjective)-downcast,
downhearted, unhappy
6. to obliterate -(verb)-to completely
destroy, wipe out
7. squalid – (adjective)-extremely dirty
or unpleasant, especially because of neglect
8. pauper- (noun)-a very poor person
9. exultation- (noun)- a feeling of
supreme happiness
10.
to
cower0 (verb)-to crouch down in fear
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