Activity In this activity, you'll use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words from The Death of Ivan Ilyich Refer back to the story as
you fill out the table below. In the contextual Meaning column write the meanings that you are able to derive from the story alone. After you've
added the contextual meanings for all words, look up the words in a dictionary and fill in the actual definitions in the Dictionary Definition column
Then, in the Notes/Comments column, write about how the contextual definitions compare to the dictionary definitions and whether context was
enough to come up with a good understanding of these unfamiliar
words,
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Contextual Meaning Dictionary Definition Notes/Comments
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piquancy
preclude
magnanimous
Sinecure
timorous
querulous
tact
amenity
savoir faire
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Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion