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 16th and 17th 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 12th to 14th
century
191. Lac – a resinous
substance secreted by a scale insect and used chiefly on the form of shellar
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