The Metamorphosis Part I-PartII Vocabulary Quiz

13. enormous; colossal

14. to discipline, especially by corporal punishment; to criticize severely.

2. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than _____ and hopeless labor.

9. clear; having only one possible meaning or interpretation

16. Review this list of synonym: Greek to me, abstract, incomprehensible, obscure, puzzling. Which vocabulary word matches this list?

7. I would gladly _____ those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.

20. Review this list of synonyms: despondent, doleful, gloomy, lachrymose, somber, woeful. Which vocabulary word matches this list?

5. Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost _____. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

8. People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works openly, and the boss ____. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

6. We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the _____. We are concerned with the length of our skirts, with the latest lipstick, with the newest thrill in hats. We are impressed by advertisements that insist we must be alluring; we must adopt a time-consuming coiffure, we must spend hours with the "beautician," we must attend fashion shows. As long as women are preoccupied with nonessentials we shall be afflicted with infantilism, passivity, and the eventual disillusionment that results from trivial, unproductive lives.

10. ineffective; useless; not successful

4. Fundamentally the male artist approximates the psychology of woman, who, is a purely different being and whose personality has been as mysterious and _____ to the man as the artist has been to the average person.

3. I was born to be an editor, I always edit everything. I edit my room at least once a week. Hotels are made for me. I can change a hotel room so thoroughly that even its proprietor doesn't recognize it.... I edit people's clothes, dressing them infallibly in the right lines.... I change everyone's coiffure--except those that please me--and these I gaze at with such satisfaction that I become suspect, I edit people's tones of voice, their laughter, their words. I change their gestures, their photographs. I change the books I read, the music I hear ... It's this _____, unavoidable observation, this need to distinguish and impose, that has made me an editor. I can't make things. I can only revise what has been made.

12. to misunderstand; to misinterpret

18. Review this list of synonyms: Machiavellian, artful, cunning, dangerous, duplicitous, ensnaring, sly, treacherous. Which vocabulary word matches this list?

1. What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, _____, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away

15. a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression; OR mournful; depressed

17. Review this list of antonyms: generous, lavish, spendthrifty, uneconomical, wasteful. Which vocabulary word is the opposite of this list?

19. Review this list of synonyms: excessive, gratuitous, inordinate, needless, redundant, unneeded, unwanted. Which vocabulary word matches this list?

11. a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, especially a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith