Harry Potter 1: Sorcerer’s Stone By: J.K. Rowling

No. 6

Summary:

Dursley family start their day dull and gray where unusual things happen such as shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place? The Muggles didn’t know all of these happenings contribute to a celebration about You-Know-Who had gone and Harry Potter had lived but unfortunately his parents died because of Voldemort. So, Harry Potter would live to his aunt Dursley because she is his mother’s sister.

Ten years passed, to Harry Potter, it had been miserable years he’d lived with the Dursleys. To him, he felt like no one, he hadn’t gain attention from them though strangers to him felt like his family. Muggles tend to treat him “weirdo” because he was always involved in unusual things such as vanishing glass. The escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned Harry his longest ever punishment. By the time he was allowed out of his cupboard again, the summer holidays had started. Summer gave Harry a bunch of letters from no one which his aunt and uncle didn’t allow him to read it.

His eleventh birthday came and an unexpected guest came and revealed Harry’s true life and true future. Only his guest, giant Hagrid remembered his birthday.

The next day, Hagrid and Harry went to London to buy all the things required in Hogwarts. They passed to Leaky Cauldron through the secret Diagon Alley where all their required things could be bought.

Summer’s gone and Harry was preparing to go to Hogwarts. Dursleys brought him to King Cross Station to Platform 9 ¾but there was nothing. Until Weasleys came over and help Harry to go to Platform 9 ¾, then Hogwarts Express, then to Hogwarts School of Wizardry. On his first day, he met many friends because he was famous.

Sorting Ceremony began by use of Sorting Hat to know if their house is in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin. Harry Potter belonged to Gryffindor house together with his known friends. After sorting, began the feast, then go to their respective dormitories and slept.

His first day, he met with different professors which introduced their corresponding subjects. His first week didn’t work out well because Snape lose him 2 points from Gryffindor. On Friday, he and Ron went to Hagrid and heard alarming news about Gringotts robbery case from their bank. The event happened earlier on the day of his birthday, July 31.

On Thursday, they will be starting their flying lessons on Quidditch through Madam Hooch. At their training, Neville got off to the hospital wing. While Harry and Malfoy got a quarrel on remembrall of Neville and they fly around the Hogwarts with their broomsticks. Professor McGonagall was shocked by Potter’s ability and recommended him to Oliver Wood to be the new Seeker of Gryffindor’s team. Malfoy bet Harry for a midnight duel, but Malfoy didn’t showed up and, this result of knowing a hidden room where a dog with three heads was guarding some kind of trap door.

The following day, Harry already got his own broomstick that started him to know about rules of Quidditch. He is already confused with his hectic schedule, Quidditch then lessons from Flitwick.

Halloween came and a surprise waked Harry, Ron and Hermione by a troll about 12 feet. The troll tried to eat Hermione but Ron and Harry save her and they became the best of friends.

Quidditch fever became more and more approaching. When Harry discovered something about Snape and the three-headed dog.

Quidditch had begun and the result, Gryffindor won a hundred and seventy points. Snape really abhors Harry that he tried to spell the broomstick to make Harry fell.

Christmas came, and Harry got his present, the Invisibility Cloak. But this event became more happier when he discovered the Mirror of Erised where he ought to find his relatives and family because the mirror show not his face but is his heart’s desire.

Quidditch battle begun between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff and Gryffindor had won in 5 minutes. Harry, Ron and Hermione had known Nicolas Flamel and almost knew behind Snape and Quirrell’s plan until Hagrid also almost told them.

Hagrid, now have an illegal dragon, a Norwegian Ridgeback. So Harry, Ron and Hermione devised a plan to get rid of it by the use of Ron’s brother, Charlie. But their plan didn’t work out well when Mr. Filch caught them creeping round the night and lose a hundred and fifty points to Gryffindor.

Their detention was going to a Forbidden Forest. Well, even though it was a detention, it helped Harry a lot to discover more about the Sorcerer’s Stone.

Final exams has started and ended. When it ended, Harry, Ron and Hermione devised a plan on how to get to the trapdoor after gathering ideas from Hagrid. Through the trapdoor, there were chambers, each of which with different challenges. Devil’s Snare, Flying Keys, Big Chess played alive, then up to the next chamber appeared Quirrell.

Quirrell was the one he had been hated for he thought it was Snape.

Now, how do they get the Sorcerer’s Stone from the mirror? Voldemort suggests using the boy. But Harry lie to which result to a quarrel between Harry and Quirrell.

When Harry was awakened, he was already at the hospital wing being saved by Dumbledore. However, the stone was gone and the Flamels would die. After he had recovered from the quarrel, without his presence, The Gryffindors stuck in the fourth place, but with points given by Dumbledore to the courage faced by Neville, Ron, Hermione and Harry from the challenges through the trapdoor, they won the first place.

His first year is indeed been great to Harry. His summer would be greater with the Dursleys because of learned experiences from Hogwarts.

Characters:

Dudley

Mrs. Petunia Dursley

Mr. Vernon Dursley

Albus Dumbledore

Professor Minerva McGonagall – teacher of transfiguration

Lily Potter

James Potter

Piers Polkiss – Friend of Dudley

Rubeus Hagrid – giant, face hidden by long shaggy mane of hair, tangled bead eyes glinting like black beetles. Keeper of keys and grounds of Hogwarts.

Voldemort – “You-Know-Who”

Cornelius Fudge – Ministry of Magic

Professor Quirrell – Defense Against Dark Arts Teacher

Malkin– owner of robes

Hedwig – Harry’s owl name

Mr. Ollivander – owner of “Ollivanders”

Fred, Ron, George, Percy, Ginny, Bill, Charlie Weasley

Scabbers – Ron’s rat

Draco Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle

Bill – in Africa, working for Gringotts

Charlie – in Romania, studying dragons

Nicholas de Mimsy – Nearly Headless Nick

Petrificus Totalus – “Body Bind”

Bloody Baron – ghost of Slytherin

Argus Filch – Caretaker of Hogwarts school

Mrs. Norris – cat of Argus Filch

Professor Sprout – teacher of Herbology

Professor Binns – teacher of History of Magic

Professor Flitwick – charms teacher

Professor Snape – potion’s teacher

Madam Hooch – Professor of Quidditch, first flying lessons

Oliver Wood – captain of Gryffindor’s team

Marcus Flint – Slytherin captain

Neville Longbottom

Fluffy – the 3-headed dog

Madam Pince – the librarian

Nicolas Flamel – known maker of Philosopher’s Stone about 665 yrs. old

Perenelle Flamel – Nicolas Flamel’s wife about 658 yrs. old

Vocabulary:

1.      Beefy – sturdy, heavily and powerfully built

2.      Tawny – brownish orange to light brown color

3.      Tyke – a small child

4.      Twanging – to speak or sound with nasal intonation

5.      Thronging – to crowd together in great numbers

6.      Pelting – blowing

7.      Poltergeist – a noisy usually mischievous ghost held to be responsible for unexplained noises

8.      Swarthy – a dark color, complexion or cast

9.      Stammering – to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking

10.  Swishy to produce a long hissing sound

11.  Beetroot – a beet grown from it’s edible red root

12.  Bloke – man, fellow

13.  Hag – witch

14.  Hobbled – to move along

15.  Galoshes – shoes with heavy sole

16.  Whelk – any of numerous larger snails

17.  Wafting – to move lightly

18.  Ducked – bowed

19.  Cowering – to shrink or crouch

20.  Rasping – to rub with something tough

21.  Riffraff – disreputable persons

22.  Flitting – to pass quickly

23.  Foghorn – a loud hoarse voice

24.  Furling – curling, folding

25.  Fur ore – hectic activity

26.  Miffed – ill human offend

27.  Mangled – wound deep disfiguring

28.  Queuing – arrange, wait

29.  Quaver – tremble

30.  Yelp – to utter a sharp quick shrill cry

Operational definition:

·         Muggle – non-magic folk

·         Sickles, Knuts – bronze coins (wizard coins)

·         Gringotts – Wizards bank

·         Ministry of Magic

·         Flourish and Blotts – name of shop of Wizard’s clothes

·         Ollivanders – place of wands

·         Eeylops Owl Emporium – place of owls

·         Caput Draconis – password used through passing a portrait of a very fat woman in pink silk dress to their dormitory

·         Herbology – learning how to take care strange plants and fungi and found out their uses

·         Bezoar – stone taken from stomach of a goat and it will save you from any poisons

·         Asphodel and Wormwood – when combined formed sleeping potion known as the Draught of the Living Death

·         Monkshood and Wolfsbane – are the same plant, which also goes by the name aconite

·         Remembrall – tells you if you forget something. If it turns scarlet, that means you forgot something

·         Alohomora – locked doorknob could be open

·         Chasers – throw Quaffle to each other and try to get it through one of the hoops to score a goal

1 hoop = 10 goals

·         Quaffle – red ball

·         Bludgers – black balls

·         Keepers – guards the goal posts

·         Beaters – keep the Bludgers away from their team

·         Golden Snitch – gold ball with wings

·         Winggardum Leviosa – making objects fly

·         Alchemy – study concerned with making of Philosopher’s Stone

·         Philosopher’s Stone – transform metal into pure gold and produces Elixir of Life which makes the drinker mortal

·         Locomotor Mortis – Leg-Locker-Curse

·         Warlock’s Convention of 1709 – outlawed dragon breeding

·         Norwegian Ridgeback – dragon owned by Hagrid

·         Address to Dudley’s House

Mr. H. Potter

The Cupboard under the stairs

4 Privet Drive

Little Whinging Surrey

·         Letters From No One

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore

(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorcerer, Chief Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confederation of Wizards)

Dear Mr. Potter,

                      We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

                     

                      Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours Sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Uniform

First Year students will require:

1.      3 sets of plain work robes (black)

2.      1 plain pointed hat (black) for day wear

3.      1 pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar)

4.      1 winter cloak (black, silver fastenings)

Please note that all pupil’s clothes should carry their name tags

Set Books

All students should have a copy of each of the following:

A Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk

A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot

Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling

A Beginner’s Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch

One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore

Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander

The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

Other Equipment

1 wand

1 cauldron (pewter, standard size 2)

1 set glass or crystal phials

1 telescope

1 set brass scales

Students may also bring an owl or cat or a toad

Parents are reminded that first years are not allowed their own broomsticks

Gringotts

Enter, stranger, but take heed

Of what awaits the sin of greed,

For those who take, but do not earn,

Must pay most clearly in their terms,

So if you seek beneath our floors,

Thief you have been warned, beware

Of finding more than treasure there

Curse and Counter-Curses(Bewitch your Friends and Befuddle your Enemies with the latest Revenges: Hair Loss, Jelly-Legs, Tongue-Tying and much, much more ) by Professor Vindictus Vindian

ALBUS DUMBLEDORE…currently headmaster of Hogwarts. Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times. Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the 12 uses of dragon’ blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel. Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.

Morgan, Hengist of Wood craft, Alberic Grunnion, Circe, Paracelsus, Merlin.

Song of the Thinking Cap (The Sorting Hat)

Oh, you may not think I’m pretty,

But don’t judge on what you see,

I’ll eat myself if you can find

A smarter hat than me

You can keep your bowlers black,

Your top hats sleek and tall,

For I’m the Hogwarts Sorting Hat

And I can cap them all

There’s nothing hidden in your head

The Sorting Hat can’t see

So try me on and I will tell you

Where you ought to be

You might belong in Gryffindor,

Where dwell the brave at heart,

There daring, nerve and chivalry

Set Gryffindors apart;

You might belong to Hufflepuff,

Where they are just and loyal,

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true

And unafraid of toil,

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,

If you’ve a ready mind

Where those of wit and learning,

Will always find their kind;

Or perhaps in Slytherin

You’ll make your real friends,

Those cunning folk use any means

To achieve their ends

So put me on! Don’t be afraid!

And don’t get in a flab!

You’re in safe hands (though I have none)

For I’m a Thinking Cap!

HOGWARTS SCHOOL SONG:

‘Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,

Teach us something please,

Whether we be old and bald

Or young with scabby knees,

Our heads could do with the filling

With some interesting stuff,

For now they’ve bare and full of air,

Dead flies and bits of fluff,

So teach us things worth knowing,

Bring back what we’ve forgot,

Just do your best, we’ll do the rest,

And learn until our brains all rot.

GRINGOTTS BREAK-IN LATEST

Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July, widely believed to better work of dark wizards or witches unknown. Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied the same day. ‘But we’re not telling you what was in there to keep your noses out if you know what’s good for you’, said a Gringotts spokes goblin this afternoon.

Fourth Battle Through the Trapdoor

Danger lies before you, while safety lies behind,

Two of us will help you, whichever you would find

One among us seven will let you more ahead

Another will transport the drinker back instead,

Two among our number hold only nettle wine,

Three of us are killers, waiting hidden in line

Choose, unless you wish to stay here forevermore,

To help you in your choice, we give you these clues for,

First, however slyly the poison tries to hide

You will always find some on nettle wine’s left side

Second, different are those who stand at other end,

But if you could move onwards, neither is your friend

Third, as you see clearly, all are of different size,

Neither dwarf nor giant holds death in their insides;

Fourth, the second left and the second on the right

Are twins once you taste them, though different at first sight

A Walk To Remember By: Nicholas Sparks

No. 5

Summary:

The story started at Beaufort, North Carolina where people lived a simple life. Their lives centered with churches. Where it supports plays from the imagination of Mr. Hegbert. His plays always warmed the feelings of everyone. Heartwarming and very devoted to God.

Beaufort had been ruled by London Carter’s father, Worth Carter. His father had been a congressman since 30 years. He and his father didn’t get close with each other because London’s father has not enough time to give with him. So, London had lived with her mother when he was growing up.

Hegbert was too old when her daughter was born by his wife which died after giving birth. Her daughter’s name is Jamie Sullivan, attending the same club where London is at. They didn’t get along well with each other because they didn’t have common with each other.

London was a senior in high school and was getting ready for college. He wanted in University of North Carolina, but before that, he must have some excellent abilities. And he strives to be the student body president.

In their school, the homecoming dance is much awaited. Carter was panicking because he didn’t have already a date. Because of his panic, he consulted the yearbook and found Jamie. He asked Jamie to dance with him and Jamie loved to in one condition.

After two weeks followed by homecoming, Jamie had asked him for a favor. The favor was for him to be Tom Thornton in play sponsored and created by Jamie’s father. After thinking it seriously, he soon accepted her favor. After he accepts her favor, rehearsals followed. And followed by the idea of London’s friend to conduct their play with orphans. They tried to convince the director of orphanage but their plan didn’t work out well.

December was approaching and their play also was.

The play went well. Also, in the play, Jamie’s transformation also shocked London.

Christmas Eve have ever been great to London with the orphanage and Jamie. This was the time when he have fallen in love with Jamie.

Love began on Christmas Eve and went on until New Year’s Eve. Until Jamie said to London that she can’t love him because she was dying from leukemia.

Before Jamie died, she and London got married. This was the event that London couldn’t ever forget. Because this had made him a better person and proved to him that miracles could happen.

Vocabulary:

1.      Perk – carry the body in an insolent manner. Gain in vigor or cheerfulness

2.      Clout – to hit forcefully

3.      Snuff – to sniff loudly as if in disgust

4.      Peons – persons held in compulsory servitude to a manner for the working out of an indebtedness

5.      Lint – a soft fleecy material made from lines usually by scraping

6.      Despondent – feeling or showing extreme discouragement

7.      Lisps – to pronounce sibilants imperfectly

8.      Barf – vomit

9.      Wheezing – to breathe with difficulty

10.  Scooted – to move swiftly

11.  Tipsy – unsteady

12.  Fornication – consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other

13.  Squinched – crouched down or draw together

14.  Sling – to throw with or as if with a sling

15.  Fib – trivial or childish lie

16.  Pandemonium – tumult

17.  Queasy – full of doubt

18.  Swagger – arrogant or superciliously preconceived self-assured behavior

19.  Sallow – grayish greenish yellow color

20.  Volition – act of making a choice or decision

21.  Flub – to make a mess of

22.  Grille – grating forming a barrier or screen

23.  Edgewise – sideways

24.  Wistful – know of; full of yearning or desire tinged with melancholy

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS By: Jules Verne

No. 4

Summary:

Phileas Fogg was a rich, noble and lonesome man. He fired James Faster and Passepartout was imminent to it. Mr. Passepartout thinks he is well suited for his master which was punctiliously exact.

Phileas Fogg put all his hours on the Reform Club. One day, they were discussing about the robbers on news. How could they ever get them? And then all agreed to travel the world around in 80 days just to search for those evils. But it cost much.

Mr. Fogg astounds Passepartout to going around the world. They thought that they haven’t forgotten anything, till they realized their house was burning.

The world news then questioned Mr. Fogg’s traveling the world in 80 days.

There was a detective left in London to search also for the robber until he arrest him. But he false knew that it’s Mr. Fogg and his servant. It proved that passports are useless as aids to detectives. Till he suspected him to be the robber by some suspicious.

They have passed the violent wind to Red Sea and Indian Ocean. They have learned much from India and left Bombay. Unfortunate, Passepartout lost his shoes.

The train stopped at Kholby. It was a great disaster. They need to find conveyance to going Allabahad. And they used an elephant which caused them a lot.

They used the forest as a shortcut, until they discovered Brahmans’ doing some suttee. Then, Mr. Fogg wants to save the woman being burned alive. They saved her, they succeed. They carried her to Hongkong. While on their way, Sir Francis Cowartry adieu to going somewhere in India where he is encamped.

At the halfway of their journey going to Calcutta, they were arrested because of a violation committed by Passepartout. But when they paid the fines related to the violation, they were freed.

And they’re off, going to Hongkong for Aouda to be settled by taking the “Rangoon”. While on their way, Fix continues his bad plans for his suspected robber.

There was a short delay on the journey from Singapore up to Hongkong. When they’re in Hongkong, they soon realized that Jejeech has gone off to Holland. They planned to go Europe.

Because “Rangoon” failed, they used “Carnatic” as a means of transportation from Hongkong up to Yokohama, but they have lost it. Fix try to poison Passepartout’s mind by saying bad words to his master and left him dying from opium. They’ve lost “Carnatic” and found “Tankadere”. But the master of the boat that they will go to Yokohama. Mr. Fogg agreed. They’ve left Passepartout. But at the middle of their journey, a storm showed, thus the detour going to Shangha.

Passepartout had recovered from opium and had ridden to “Cancarnet” whose traveling to Yokohama. Passepartout had done everything just to fill his stomach. When He and Mr. Fogg had seen each other in the theatre. They will now reach San Francisco by “General Grant”.

By getting to the Liverpool, they should pass along the Pacific Railroad. While, there was a short delay, when a herd of buffaloes pass through them.

The next day, a Mormon came to the train and preaches about their everything, and then Passepartout attentively listen.

Aouda, Fix and Passepartout find a way so that Colonel Stamp Proctor and Mr. Fogg will not saw each other. The engineer takes the risk of leaping the train from a shaky bridge and successfully passed it.

The morrow came, and Colonel Proctor and Mr. Fogg had seen each other and started a fight. The middle of their journey, a band of Sioux had entered them and started also a fight. Then, afterwards, Passepartout became missing.

Fogg and 30 volunteers tried to save Passepartout and other 3 Frenchmen from Sioux. And they were saved and lost the train. Instead of the train, they used the sledge and got into “Henrietta” where they would only destined to Bordeaux.

They gone off from “Henrietta” and went to Queensland to be in Liverpool easily. But he got arrested there with Mr. Fix. And he has freed after knowing that the robber had been arrested 3 days ago. Then, they went off to London. When they get there, Mr. Fogg and Aouda shared their loved feelings for each other. Phileas Fogg had shown up to the Reform Club. Forty-eight hours after, they will be getting married.

Vocabulary:

1.      Aplomb – poise; confidence

2.      Claret – purplish red

3.      Byronic – resembled Byron

4.      Mosaic – a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns

5.      Porphyric – an igneous rock of porphyritic

6.      Swan-skin – the skin of a swan with feathers on it.

7.      Viands – provisions

8.      Predecessor – a person who has previously occupied a position or office to which another has succeeded

9.      Vault – room or compartment

10.  Valet – a man’s male servant

11.  Graviest – authorative, important

12.  Grenadier – a soldier who carries and throws grenades

13.  Itinerate – preaching or judicial circuit

14.  Flurried – to become agitated or confused

15.  Garret – room or unfinished part of the house just under the roof

16.  Dunces – one who is slow-witted or stupid

17.  Pert – lively, vivacious

18.  Physiognomists – persons who studies the character from outward appearance

19.  Repose – to place for control, management, use

20.  Rubicund – ruddy

21.  Vagrant – one who having no fixed place usually with  no means of support

22.  Flunky – one performing menial or miscellaneous duties; yes-man

23.  Gilded – to give attractive but often deceptive appearance to

24.  Rhubarb – any of a genus of Asian plants of buckwheat family having large leaves and thick succulent petioles often used as a food

25.  Retorted - to give an answer in return

26.  Ingot – a mold in which metal is cast

27.  Gratings – cages, prisons

28.  Zeal – eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something

29.  Pshour – used to express irritation, disapproval, contempt or disbelief

30.  Chary – clear, treasured, cautious

31.  Par – the established value of the monetary unit

32.  Wharves – bank of the river or shore of the sea

33.  Abridged – deprive, diminished, condensed

34.  Rascally – characteristic of mean, unprincipled, dishonest and mischievous person

35.  Quay – a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place

36.  Hull – covering, casing

37.  Importunate – overly persistent in request or command

38.  Indispensable – essential

39.  Jetty – protecting frame of a pier

40.  Deuce – something notable of, damned, confounded

41.  Fob – deceive; cheat

42.  Volubly – talkative, fluent

43.  Rogues – dishonest or worthless persons

44.  Brigade – to form or unite into large body troops

45.  Brigadier-general – a commissioned officer in the army, air force or marine corps who ranks above a colonel and whose insignia is one star

46.  Famished – intensely at hungry; needy

47.  Ogre – a hideous giant of fairy tales and folklore that feeds on human beings; monster

48.  Pagodas – a Far Eastern tower usually with roofs curving upward at the division of each several stories and erected as a temple or memorial

49.  Cisterns – artificial reservoirs for storing liquids

50.  Sauntered – to walk about in an idle or leisurely manner

51.  Strait – of – Bab-el – MandeB – “The Bridge of Tears”

52.  Cumbrous – heavy

53.  Forthwith – immediately

54.  Docks – basin or artificial enclosure for the reception of ships

55.  Synagogues – house of worship and communal center for Jewish congregation

56.  Hypogeal – growing or living below the surface of the ground

57.  Grottoes – artificial structures made to resemble a natural cave

58.  Giblet – edible viscera of the fowl

59.  Mew – to utter a mew or a similar sound

60.  Viols – a bowed stringed instrument of the 16^th and 17^th centuries made in treble, alto, tenor and bass sizes and distinguished from members of violin family especially in having a deep body, a flat back, a sloping shoulders, usually six strings, a fretted fingerboard, and a low-arched bridge

61.  Processions – progressions

62.  Booby – something considered vulgar; breast

63.  Crestfallen – having shame or humiliation

64.  Assented – agreement

65.  Rectitude – righteousness

66.  Unwonted – rare, unusual

67.  Zenith – the highest point reached in the heavens by a celestial body

68.  Ruefully – regretful, mournful

69.  Domicile – home

70.  Pensive – sad thoughtfulness

71.  Pailings – small buckets

72.  Ruffians – a brutal person; bully

73.  Zebus – any of various breeds of domestic oxen developed in India that are often conspecific with the common ox or sometimes as a separate species and are characterized by a large fleshy hump over the shoulders, a dewlap, pendulous ears, and marked resistance to the injurious effects of heat and insect attack

74.  Point-black – direct; blunt, marked by no appreciable drop below initial horizontal line of flight

75.  Howdahs – seats or covered pavilions on the back of the elephants or camels

76.  Astride – with legs stretched wide apart

77.  Portico – a colonnade or covered ambulatory especially in classical architecture and often at the entrance of the building

78.  Paroxysm – sudden violent action or emotion

79.  Apoplectic – excitedly angered (greatly)

80.  Transatlantic – crossing or extending across the Atlantic Ocean

81.  Nigh – nearly, almost

82.  Anon – after a while, later

83.  Maris – sort of abandoned monastery

84.  Nutmeg – an aromatic seed that is used as a spice and is produced by an evergreen tree native to the Moluccas, a tree yielding nutmeg

85.  Clove – one of the dried flower bud of a tropical tree of myrtle family that is used as a spice and source of an oil

86.  Rump – buttocks

87.  Syenite – an igneous rock composed of fled spur

88.  Suttee – act or custom of a Hindu widow willingly being cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband as an indication of her devotion to him

89.  Scoundrels – disreputable persons; rascals

90.  Euchre – earthy usually red or yellow and often impure iron ore used as a pigment

91.  Ado – trouble, difficulty

92.  Bestride – to stride across; straddle, dominate

93.  Caparisoned – rich clothed, adornment

94.  Damascened – to ornament with wave patterns like those of watered silk or with inlaid work of precious metals

95.  Hemp – a plant yielding a fiber used for cordage

96.  Habiliments – fittings, clothes

97.  Gamut – whole series of recognized musical notes

98.  Gaunt – barren, desolate

99.  Prairie-wolves – coyote

100. Impetus – impulse

101. Cashing – thrash or beat violently

102. Octave – tone or note at apart

103. Sloop – a fore-and-aft rigged boat with one mast and single jib

104. Sledge – to ride on sleigh

105. Rudder – a flat piece or structure of wood or metal attached upright to the stern of a boat or ship so that it can be turned causing the vessel’s head to turn in the same direction

106. Brigantine – 2-masted sailing ship that is square-rigged except for a fore-and-aft man sail

107. Traction – adhesive friction of a body on the surface

108. Stoker – one that tends a marine steam boiler

109. Barricade – barrier

110. Guineas – unit of value equal to one pound and one shilling

111. Sedentary – settled

112. Declivity – downward inclination

113. Volleys – burst of simultaneous

114. Pavilions – large often sumptuous tents

115. Ambuscade – ambush

116. Cravat – band of scarf worn around the neck

117. Proselytes – convert to Judaism, new convert

118. Gainsay – contradict; oppose

119. Outrage – injury, insole

120. Arsenal – collection of weapons

121. Aperture – open space; hole

122. Colloquy – high-level serious discussion, conference

123. Encumbered – weigh down

124. Frothy – insubstantial

125. Rosin – translucent amber-colored to almost black brittle friable resin that is obtained by chemical means from the oleoresin or deadwood of pine trees from tall oil

126. Stupor – condition of greatly dulled

127. Precipices – very steep or overhanging place; hazardous station

128. Packet – paycheck

129. Pelisse – long cloak or coat made of fur

130. Rout – fuss, fashionable gathering

131. Din – to assail a loud continued nose

132. Brawn – full strong muscles

133. Sherry – Spanish fortified wine with distinctive nutty flavor

134. Verdant – green in tint or color

135. Emporium – place of trade; commercial center

136. Debtor – one guilty of neglect or violation of duty

137. Bandits – robber

138. Incendiaries – inflammatory

139. Scudding – to move or run swiftly

140. Anglicized – borrow into English without alternation of form or spelling and with or without change in pronunciation

141. Bowie-knife – a stout single-edge hunting knife with part of the back edge curved concavely to a point and sharpened

142. Budge – pompous, solemn

143. Cormorants – glutinous, greedy or rapacious persons

144. Pelicans – large fish-eating birds with a very large bill

145. Pugilistic – fighter

146. Vanquished – conquered

147. Treason – betrayal of trust

148. Antipodes – exact opposite or contrary

149. Desecrator – violate the sanctity of; profane

150. Presentiment – premonition

151. Pell-mell – in mingled confusion or disorder

152. Mountebanks – person who sells quack medicines from platform, boastful unscrupulous pretender

153. Donned – to wrap oneself

154. Masts – nuts accumulated on the forest floor and often serving as food for animals

155. Constable – police, officer

156. Accoutered – to provide with equipment or furnishings; furnish

157. Extradition – the surrender of an alleged criminal usually under the provisions of a treaty or statue by one authority to another having jurisdiction to try the charge

158. Mutton – flesh of a mature ship used for food

159. Cudgeled – to think hard

160. Enviable – highly desirable

161. Chaff – to tease good-naturedly

162. Camellias – any of a genus of shrubs or trees of the tea family

163. Epistyles – an open space enclosed by a colonnade

164. Clime – climate

165. Re-embalmed – restart

166. Gourmands – one who is excessively fond of eating and drinking

167. Foothold – a position usable as a base for further advance; footing

168. Bantering – to speak or act playfully

169. Flotilla – an indefinite large number

170. Depôt – store, cache

171. Tankas – unrhymed Japanese verses form of five lines containing 5, 7, 5, 7 and 1 syllable respectively

172. Tavern – inn

173. Stringent – constricted, tight

174. Inveigh – to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently

175. Afflict – trouble, injury

176. Waylay – to lie in wait for or attack from ambush

177. Bah – used to express disdain or contempt

178. Akin – essentially similar or compatible

179. Charter – being a travel arrangement in which transportation is hired by and for one specific group or people

180. Divan – a coral chamber, a chair without arms

181. Table d’hôte – meal served to all guests at a stated hour and fixed price

182. Hoisted – rise, raise

183. Foresail – sole or principal head sail; the lowest sail set on the foremast of a square-rigged ship or schooner

184. Aft – rearward, after

185. Eddies – current of water or air running contrary

186. Regatta – a rowing speedboat or sailing race or a series of such races

187. Zephyrs – gentle breezes from the west

188. Barrows – male hogs castrated before sexual maturity

189. Doublets – a man’s close fitting jacket worn in Europe especially during the Renaissance

190. Hauberks – a tunic of chain mail worn as defensive armor from 12^th to 14^th century

191. Lac – a resinous substance secreted by a scale insect and used chiefly on the form of shellar