Chapter XVI: Part III: Spelling and Defining

The work of spelling and defining may be carried on with the study of the text of the poem, or at the conclusion of this study. In the former case allow a week or more to pass after using a selection as a Reading lesson before studying it as a Spelling lesson, that the reading may not degenerate into a word-study.

The words selected are those which should form a part of the pupil's vocabulary. The fact that the context largely determines the meaning of a word should be made clear in this study, and the particular meaning the author employs in the poem should be required. The pupil's discrimination will at first be poor, but he soon develops considerable skill and judgment.

I

1. primeval
2. Druids
3. eld
4. prophetic
5. hoar
6. caverns
7. disconsolate
8. roe
9. glided
10. reflecting
11. adopt
12. tradition
13. affliction
14. endures
15. patient

II

1. incessant
2. floodgates
3. reposed
4. peasants
5. thatched
6. tranquil
7. vanes
8. distaffs
9. gossiping
10. reverend
11. hailing
12. serenely
13. belfry
14. incense
15. contentment

III

1. stalworth
2. stately
3. gleamed
4. tresses
5. sooth
6. turret
7. hyssop
8. chaplet
9. missal
10. generations
11. ethereal
12. confession
13. benediction
14. exquisite
15. envy

IV

1. antique
2. penitent
3. odorous
4. meek
5. innocent
6. variant
7. devotion
8. craft
9. repute
10. pedagogue
11. autumnal
12. expired
13. populous
14. wondrous
15. valiant

V

1. desolate
2. tropical
3. inclement
4. mantles
5. hoarded
6. advent
7. pious
8. magical
9. landscape
10. consoled
11. blended
12. subdued
13. arrayed
14. adorned
15. surmises

VI

1. instinct
2. superbly
3. ponderous
4. gestures
5. fantastic
6. fragments
7. carols
8. treadles
9. diligent
10. monotonous
11. jovial
12. content
13. accustomed
14. forebodings
15. mandate

VII

1. untimely
2. blighted
3. bursting
4. lurk
5. outskirts
6. anxious
7. dubious
8. scythe
9. besieged
10. contract (_n._)
11. glebe
12. inkhorn
13. rejoice
14. worthy
15. notary

VIII

1. floss
2. wisdom
3. supernal
4. languished
5. warier
6. ripe
7. unchristened
8. doomed
9. haunt
10. marvellous
11. lore
12. demeanor
13. molest
14. irascible
15. triumphs

IX

1. brazen
2. emblem
3. presided
4. corrupted
5. oppressed
6. condemned
7. convinced
8. congealed
9. tankard
10. dower
11. contention
12. manoeuvre
13. pallid
14. infinite
15. breach

X

1. anon
2. curfew
3. straightway
4. lingered
5. reigned
6. resounded
7. luminous
8. ample
9. spacious
10. dower
11. mellow
12. tremulous
13. serenely
14. flitted
15. Abraham

XI

1. clamorous
2. hamlets
3. holiday
4. blithe
5. jocund
6. greensward
7. thronged
8. hospitality
9. betrothal
10. waistcoats
11. alternately
12. embers
13. vibrant
14. mingled
15. noblest

XII

1. sonorous
2. garlands
3. sacred
4. dissonant
5. clangor
6. convened
7. clement
8. grievous
9. forfeited
10. transported
11. wail
12. imprecations
13. distorted
14. allegiance
15. merciless

XIII

1. chancel
2. mien
3. awed
4. clamorous
5. solemn
6. accents
7. vigils
8. profane
9. compassion
10. assail
11. rebuke
12. contrition
13. fervent
14. translated
15. ardor

XIV

1. mysterious
2. splendor
3. emblazoned
4. ambrosial
5. celestial
6. charity
7. emotion
8. meekness
9. gloomier
10. tenantless
11. haunted
12. phantoms
13. echoed
14. disconsolate
15. keenly

XV

1. confusion
2. thither
3. thronged
4. imprisoned
5. wayworn
6. foremost
7. inexhaustible
8. sacred
9. strength
10. submission
11. affliction
12. procession
13. approached
14. wayside
15. mischances

XVI

1. consoling
2. haggard
3. caresses
4. unperturbed
5. mortals
6. Titan-like
7. quivering
8. martyr
9. dismay
10. anguish
11. dawned
12. skirt (_v._)
13. aspect
14. affrighted
15. nethermost

XVII

1. overwhelmed
2. terror
3. wailed
4. sultry
5. bleak
6. despairing
7. extended
8. desert
9. extinguished
10. consumed
11. incomplete
12. lingered
13. rumor
14. hearsay
15. inarticulate

XVIII

1. freighted
2. exile
3. asunder
4. swoon
5. oblivious
6. trance
7. multitude
8. pallid
9. compassion
10. landscape
11. senses
12. sacred
13. glare
14. dirges
15. embarking

XIX

1. voyageur
2. loyal
3. tedious
4. tresses
5. serenely
6. illumines
7. confession
8. enrich
9. refreshments
10. endurance
11. perfected
12. rendered
13. labored
14. despair
15. essay (_v._)

XX

1. cumbrous
2. kith
3. kin
4. few-acred
5. sombre
6. turbulent
7. chutes
8. emerged
9. lagoons
10. wimpling
11. luxuriant
12. perpetual
13. citron
14. bayou
15. sluggish

XXI

1. corridors
2. multitudinous
3. reverberant
4. mysterious
5. grim
6. myriads
7. resplendent
8. sylvan
9. suspended
10. moored
11. travelers
12. extended
13. pendulous
14. flitted
15. regions

XXII

1. countenance
2. legibly
3. oblivion
4. screen
5. trance
6. vague
7. superstition
8. revealed
9. credulous
10. reverend
11. idle
12. buoy
13. betrays
14. illusions
15. Eden

XXIII

1. magician
2. wand
3. landscape
4. mingled
5. inexpressible
6. delirious
7. plaintive
8. roaring
9. revel
10. frenzied
11. Bacchantes
12. lamentation
13. derision
14. prelude
15. amber

XXIV

1. garlands
2. mystic
3. flaunted
4. Yule-tide
5. girded
6. luxuriant
7. spacious
8. symbol
9. limitless
10. cordage
11. arrayed
12. adverse
13. vent
14. misgivings
15. embarrassed

XXV

1. mortals
2. renowned
3. triumphal
4. enraptured
5. hilarious
6. marvelled
7. ci-devant
8. domains
9. patriarchal
10. dispensed
11. profusion
12. congeals
13. ploughshare
14. accordant
15. melodious

XXVI

1. entranced
2. irrepressible
3. devious
4. manifold
5. Carthusian
6. inundate
7. indefinable
8. measureless
9. marvel
10. comet
11. oracular
12. annointed
13. delicious
14. fasting
15. famine

XXVII

1. perpetual
2. jagged
3. gorge
4. emigrant
5. precipitate
6. ceaseless
7. vibrations
8. amorphas
9. blast
10. blight
11. pinions
12. implacable
13. scaling
14. taciturn
15. anchorite

XXIII

1. venison
2. companions
3. swarthy
4. reverses
5. compassion
6. mute
7. dissolving
8. weird
9. incantation
10. phantom
11. enchanted
12. enchantress
13. sombre
14. audible
15. indefinite

XXIX

1. towering
2. crucifix
3. rural
4. chapel
5. intricate
6. aerial
7. vespers
8. swarded
9. benignant
10. wigwam
11. mother-tongue
12. chase (_n._)
13. submissive
14. afflicted
15. betimes

XXX

1. interlacing
2. mendicant
3. granaries
4. pillage
5. vigorous
6. magnet
7. suspended
8. fragile
9. limitless
10. luxuriant
11. fragrance
12. hue
13. perilous
14. divers
15. dawn

XXXI

1. sylvan
2. apostle
3. balm
4. emblem
5. fain
6. appease
7. haunts
8. molested
9. descendants
10. hamlets
11. illumined
12. transfigured
13. abnegation
14. diffused
15. aroma

XXXIII

1. pestilence
2. presaged
3. naught
4. brackish
5. margin
6. oppressor
7. scourge
8. splendor
9. wending
10. corridors
11. intermingled
12. assiduous
13. pallets
14. languid
15. consolor

XXXIV

1. flowerets
2. terrible
3. anguish
4. assume
5. portals
6. exhausted
7. infinite
8. reverberations
9. sylvan
10. vanished
11. vainly
12. humble
13. ebbing
14. throbbing
15. customs

Transcriber's notes:

1. The poem has been compared with another version already on Gutenberg-- (vngln10). Where the two disagreed, this text was carefully re-checked to ensure the text and punctuation matched those on the scanned image.

2. The following apparent errors in the source text were corrected:

Poem Line 73 'bessings' changed to blessings. 346 'manoeuvre': the oe ligature was split. 668 'goods' changed to Gods. 692 full stop added to line end. 718 'father-confessor': hyphen added. 840 'their' changed to there. 850 'reverened' changed to reverend. 909 'spar' changed to spars. 909 'tropcis' changed to tropics. 1083 'rivre' changed to river. 1256 'reecho' changed to re-echo.

2. Line 713 has been copied and inserted from vgln10. This was missing in the book, but was referenced in the notes; the line numbering also showed a missing line between 710 and 715.

3. No other (deliberate) changes have made to the poem. There remain a number of minor word and punctuation differences between this and vngln10.

4. Special characters.

A number of characters used in the notes to describe pronunciation do not exist in ASCII. The following conventions have been used to represent them:

[=a] 'a' + Macron; ('a' with a horizontal line above). [=o] 'o' + Macron; ('o' with a horizontal line above). [=e] 'e' + Macron; ('e' with a horizontal line above).

[)a] 'a' with a curved line above - like horns. [)e] 'e' with a curved line above - like horns.

[.a] 'a' with a single dot above

End of Project Gutenberg's Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow