Moonlight

MOONLIGHT

By Guy de Maupassant

Group 5

Ben Leparto

Lyndie Amyviel Fiel

Leonard Cabugsan

Kritine Jade Tabanyag

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Nurjalyn Ranain

SUMMARY:

Madame Julie Roubere was expecting her elder sister, Madame Henriette Letore, who had returned from a trip to Switerland. Madame Henriette allowed her husband to return alone in Cavados. Night come on. Madame Roubere was reading in an absent minded way, raising her eyes, whenever she heard a sound. At last, she heard a ring at the door her sister appeared, without any formal greeting they embraced each other.

It was now quite dark. After a minute Madame Julie Roubere has noticed to her sister Madame Letore that she thought that mysterious and terrible calamity must have befallen her sister that’s why her sister has many questions. Then Madame Henriette answered that she has a lover.

The two women went over to a sofa in a dark corner of the room into which they sank, and the younger sister, passing her arm over the elder one’s neck, and drawing her close to her heart. They talk about the husband of Madame Julie and about what happened on the trip of Madame Henriette that her real lover that night was the moonlight.

Lyndie Amyvil M. Fiel

Summarizer 

ILLUSTRATION:

 Chose this because it is the place where the conversation happened between Madame Roubere and Madame Letore. What happened to Madame Letore when she is in Switzerland, about her lover and her feelings. It is the place also where Madame Roubere comforted Madame Letore.

Leparto, Ben R.

Illustrator

Moonlight

Are you faithful to your partner?

In any relationship it takes two persons to work out any relationship, one should be cold when the other is on fire. It takes a lot of courage and work hard for the relationship will grow and both of you will also grow as the relationship mounting.

Loyalty is a sign of faithfulness and respect to the relationship that you have, indeed, it is a sign of love to your partner. Trials in a couple is not a problem, we should not despise it therefore we should embrace it, for it is a gift. Why? Trials makes a person stronger, it gives new schema that can be use in future and makes a relationship more valuable for a couple because they work and surpass the problem together.

Questions:

1.       Describe faithfulness.

Faithfulness is being and staying loyal to your partner even with his imperfections.

2.       If you’re the sibling of Madame Heriette Letore, what would be your reaction to her revelation?

A sister will always be a sister even how bad or good your sibling has done.

In case of Madame Letore if I were her sister, I won’t tolerate her actions but I won’t despise her, instead I will help her to overcome her problem; be a shoulder and person she can rely on.

3.       What is the charater of the husband of Madame Henriette?

He is a responsible husband in terms of financial support to his family, and trying to give a luxurious living to her partner but in terms of being a husband to his wife aside from a financial supporter he is not successfully doing his role. He is insensitive to the feelings of her wife.

4.       Describe the character of Madame Henriette Letore.

She is a loving person, a sensitive and romantic one. But she is weak whenever she rejected, she cannot bear the rejection she received from her husband and become vulnerable in it.

5.       If you are Madame Henriette Letore would you commit the same? Why?

If I were in the shoes of Madame Letore I will not do the same mistake foe I will remain faithful to my partner despite of insensitivity to my feeling, maybe there is a reason of his actions and instead of hiding my feeling I will open up to him so that he will know my thoughts and I will hear his side.  

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Discussion Leader

Vocabulary

Impetuously

                -Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate.

                -Having or marked by violent force: impetuous, having waves

Example: Impetuous man, quickly in his decisions.

Falsehood

                -The quality of being untrue

                -An act of deceiving or lying

Example: Falsehood of a conditional expression to determine the execution.

Unbosom

                -Admit, confess, confide, disclose, divulge, get (something) off one’s chest (informal) get (something) out of one’s system, lay bare, let out, reveal, spill one’s guts about (slang) tell, unburden.

Example: So saying, he passed to the palace of Zosimus the Patriarch, to whom he could unbosom himself with more safety.

Hermetically

                -Sealed so as to be airtight

                -Hidden or protected from the outside world

Example: So an expensive hermetically sealed coffin is required if embalming is rejected.

Glittered

                -Sparkle or brilliance

                -Show and glamour

                -Tiny pieces of shiny decorative material used for ornamentation

Example: The show glitters with famous actors.

Enervates

                -To deprive of strength or vitality; waken physically or mentally; debilitate

Example: Enervates it was the enervating heat of the afternoon, perhaps the soporific effect of the bathing session, or maybe something else entirely.

Dullness

                -Slow to think or understand; stupid

                -lacking in interest

                -Lacking in perception or ability to respond; insensitive

Example: Dogged by dullness and variable quality, they have been losing money for years.

Barrister

                (In England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts.

                -Informal; any lawyer

Example: You may have employed a barrister to represent you at this stage.

Veil

                -A piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulder on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress.

Example: The bride’s dress was of white figured silk, her bridal veil was caught up with a wreath of orange blossom.

Leonard A. Cabugsan

Vocabulary Enricher

Connecting

“And his words froze me to the heart. It seems to me that when people love each other, they ought to feel more moved by love than ever, in the presence of beautiful sceneries.”

                In real life scenario, when a man/woman falls in love, both parties must do everything to show their love to each other. To maintain the passion for love, sometimes, the beautiful scenes, the dating place and the words to be uttered are very important for it gives happy memories which they’ve shared together.

Kristine Jade Tabanyag

Connector

Passage

“You see, sister, very often is not a man that we love itself. And your real lover that night was the moonlight.”

                I chose this passage because this passage tells a real thing about love, and in other way, opens the mind of Madam Letore. God made the night more enchanting than the day because such beauty was made to cradle lovers. God allowed this to happen to nurture such love, passion, such intimacy. The moonlight that signifies love is the said thing about what we love is love itself; that such beauty is hidden in the dark like no one will ever see love when no one would dare to look deeper in the heart.

Nurjalyn Ranain

Passage Picker

Moonlight

MOONLIGHT

By Guy de Maupassant

Group 5

Ben Leparto

Lyndie Amyviel Fiel

Leonard Cabugsan

Kritine Jade Tabanyag

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Nurjalyn Ranain

SUMMARY:

Madame Julie Roubere was expecting her elder sister, Madame Henriette Letore, who had returned from a trip to Switerland. Madame Henriette allowed her husband to return alone in Cavados. Night come on. Madame Roubere was reading in an absent minded way, raising her eyes, whenever she heard a sound. At last, she heard a ring at the door her sister appeared, without any formal greeting they embraced each other.

It was now quite dark. After a minute Madame Julie Roubere has noticed to her sister Madame Letore that she thought that mysterious and terrible calamity must have befallen her sister that’s why her sister has many questions. Then Madame Henriette answered that she has a lover.

The two women went over to a sofa in a dark corner of the room into which they sank, and the younger sister, passing her arm over the elder one’s neck, and drawing her close to her heart. They talk about the husband of Madame Julie and about what happened on the trip of Madame Henriette that her real lover that night was the moonlight.

Lyndie Amyvil M. Fiel

Summarizer 

ILLUSTRATION:

 Chose this because it is the place where the conversation happened between Madame Roubere and Madame Letore. What happened to Madame Letore when she is in Switzerland, about her lover and her feelings. It is the place also where Madame Roubere comforted Madame Letore.

Leparto, Ben R.

Illustrator

Moonlight

Are you faithful to your partner?

In any relationship it takes two persons to work out any relationship, one should be cold when the other is on fire. It takes a lot of courage and work hard for the relationship will grow and both of you will also grow as the relationship mounting.

Loyalty is a sign of faithfulness and respect to the relationship that you have, indeed, it is a sign of love to your partner. Trials in a couple is not a problem, we should not despise it therefore we should embrace it, for it is a gift. Why? Trials makes a person stronger, it gives new schema that can be use in future and makes a relationship more valuable for a couple because they work and surpass the problem together.

Questions:

1.       Describe faithfulness.

Faithfulness is being and staying loyal to your partner even with his imperfections.

2.       If you’re the sibling of Madame Heriette Letore, what would be your reaction to her revelation?

A sister will always be a sister even how bad or good your sibling has done.

In case of Madame Letore if I were her sister, I won’t tolerate her actions but I won’t despise her, instead I will help her to overcome her problem; be a shoulder and person she can rely on.

3.       What is the charater of the husband of Madame Henriette?

He is a responsible husband in terms of financial support to his family, and trying to give a luxurious living to her partner but in terms of being a husband to his wife aside from a financial supporter he is not successfully doing his role. He is insensitive to the feelings of her wife.

4.       Describe the character of Madame Henriette Letore.

She is a loving person, a sensitive and romantic one. But she is weak whenever she rejected, she cannot bear the rejection she received from her husband and become vulnerable in it.

5.       If you are Madame Henriette Letore would you commit the same? Why?

If I were in the shoes of Madame Letore I will not do the same mistake foe I will remain faithful to my partner despite of insensitivity to my feeling, maybe there is a reason of his actions and instead of hiding my feeling I will open up to him so that he will know my thoughts and I will hear his side.  

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Discussion Leader

Vocabulary

Impetuously

                -Characterized by sudden and forceful energy or emotion; impulsive and passionate.

                -Having or marked by violent force: impetuous, having waves

Example: Impetuous man, quickly in his decisions.

Falsehood

                -The quality of being untrue

                -An act of deceiving or lying

Example: Falsehood of a conditional expression to determine the execution.

Unbosom

                -Admit, confess, confide, disclose, divulge, get (something) off one’s chest (informal) get (something) out of one’s system, lay bare, let out, reveal, spill one’s guts about (slang) tell, unburden.

Example: So saying, he passed to the palace of Zosimus the Patriarch, to whom he could unbosom himself with more safety.

Hermetically

                -Sealed so as to be airtight

                -Hidden or protected from the outside world

Example: So an expensive hermetically sealed coffin is required if embalming is rejected.

Glittered

                -Sparkle or brilliance

                -Show and glamour

                -Tiny pieces of shiny decorative material used for ornamentation

Example: The show glitters with famous actors.

Enervates

                -To deprive of strength or vitality; waken physically or mentally; debilitate

Example: Enervates it was the enervating heat of the afternoon, perhaps the soporific effect of the bathing session, or maybe something else entirely.

Dullness

                -Slow to think or understand; stupid

                -lacking in interest

                -Lacking in perception or ability to respond; insensitive

Example: Dogged by dullness and variable quality, they have been losing money for years.

Barrister

                (In England) a lawyer who is a member of one of the Inns of Court and who has the privilege of pleading in the higher courts.

                -Informal; any lawyer

Example: You may have employed a barrister to represent you at this stage.

Veil

                -A piece of material worn so as to fall over the head and shoulder on each side of the face, forming a part of the headdress.

Example: The bride’s dress was of white figured silk, her bridal veil was caught up with a wreath of orange blossom.

Leonard A. Cabugsan

Vocabulary Enricher

Connecting

“And his words froze me to the heart. It seems to me that when people love each other, they ought to feel more moved by love than ever, in the presence of beautiful sceneries.”

                In real life scenario, when a man/woman falls in love, both parties must do everything to show their love to each other. To maintain the passion for love, sometimes, the beautiful scenes, the dating place and the words to be uttered are very important for it gives happy memories which they’ve shared together.

Kristine Jade Tabanyag

Connector

Passage

“You see, sister, very often is not a man that we love itself. And your real lover that night was the moonlight.”

                I chose this passage because this passage tells a real thing about love, and in other way, opens the mind of Madam Letore. God made the night more enchanting than the day because such beauty was made to cradle lovers. God allowed this to happen to nurture such love, passion, such intimacy. The moonlight that signifies love is the said thing about what we love is love itself; that such beauty is hidden in the dark like no one will ever see love when no one would dare to look deeper in the heart.

Nurjalyn Ranain

Passage Picker

A Rose for Emily

 Illustration

I choose this drawing as the house of Emily because it represents the alienation, mental illness, and death. It is a shrine to the living past, and the scaled upstairs bedroom is her macabre trophy room where she preserves the ma she would not allow to leave her. It’s when the group new sprinkled time along the foundation to counteract the stench of rooting flesh, the town people skulk along the edges of Emily’s life and property.  The house, like its owner, is an object of fascination for them. They project their lurid fantasies ad interpretations on to the crumblingdificeand mysterious figure inside. Emily’s death is a chance for them to gain access to this forbidden realm and confirm their widest nations and most sensationalistic   suppositions about what had occurred on the inside.

Leonard A. Cabugsan

Illustrator 

Discussion

What color is Miss Emily’s hair at the end of her life?

-Iron Gray. One of Miss Emily’s hairs was found on a pillow in the same bed as Homer’s body.

What type of classes did Miss Emily once teach?

-Porcelain Painting. She taught these classes to the friends and family of Colonel Sartoris.

Kristine Jade Tabanyag

What did Miss Emily buy from druggist?

-Arsenic. The story leads the reader to believe that arsenic was used to kill Homer.

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

How many days did Miss Emily keep her father’s body after he died before she let the townspeople bury him?

-3 & three. The townspeople were threatening to force their way in to get the body, but Miss Emily relented and let them take it without force.

Amivil Fiel

What color were walls in the upstairs room where Homer’s body was found?

-Rose. Nowhere in the story does it tell what the “Rose” in “A Rose For Emily” actually is. The word “rose” is used four times throughout the story, but only as an action (to raise up) or as a color.

Leonard Cabugsan

What is Miss Emily’s surname?

-Grierson. This stated in the first phrases of the story. The Grierson family was an important family in the Antebellum  society of Jefferson.

 Ben Leparto

Which is not an architectural feature of Miss Emily’s house?

-Gables. The house was created in the 1870’s.

                Ivy Gay Dela cruz

Who is Miss Emily’s servant?

-Tobe. Tobe was Miss Emily’s only link to outside world – he would shop for her, but would talk to the townspeople about Miss Emily.

Leonard Cabugsan

In what town does Miss Emily live?

-Jefferson. This is stated in the last sentences of the first section. Jefferson is a fictional town and which state it is in is not mentioned.

Kristine Jade Tabanyag

What was Miss Emily’s lover’s name?

-Homer Barron. After Miss Emily dies, the townspeople find Homer’s body in an upstairs bedroom of her house.

Amivil Fiel

Nurjalyn Ranain

Discussion Leader

Summary:

                It begins at the funeral of Miss Emily Grierson. Most of the people of Jefferson went to her house for her funeral. Nobody has been to her house in ten years, except Tobe, the servant. The house was old. She is a motherless child, so when her father died she denied his death for three days until she break down and gives up the body for burial. The town had a special relationship with Miss Emily ever since it decided to stop billing her for taxes in 1894. While her father was alive they have much money. However, after the mayor died the “new generation” wasn’t happy with this arrangement because they did not have the verbal paper agreement and thus, they required her to pay taxes but she flatly refused to pay. Thirty years before, the tax townspeople collector had a strange encounter with Miss Emily about a bad smell at her house, about two years ago after her father died and a short time after her lover Homer Barron disappeared. Lots of people complained about the bad smell. So, they sprinkled lime around her house Not too long after her father died Emily begins to go out with Homer Barron the construction foreman at their town. Most people saw them riding in his yellow-wheeled buggy every Sunday afternoon. The town heavily disapproves the affair and brings Emily’s cousins to town to stop the relationship. One day, Emily is seen buying arsenic at the drugstore. When she bought bunch of men’s items, the townspeople think that they are going to get married. Homer leaves town, her cousins leave town, and then homer came back. He is the last person seen to enter the front door of Miss Emily’s house. After that, people rarely seen Ms. Emily leaves her house, except for a period of half years when she gave a painting. At the age of seventy-four Emily died from illness in one of her downstairs bedroom that hasn’t seen light in many years. Her hair turns gray and she gains weight. Tobe, her servant, lets in the town women and then leaves by the backdoor forever. After the funeral, and after Emily is buried, the townspeople go upstairs to break into the room that they know has been closed for forty years and that they discovered Miss Emily’s disturbing long kept secret. Inside, they find the corpse of Homer Barron, stretched out on the bed with a suit and wedding tokens spread about. As the townspeople entered and moved closer to the bed one discovered a long strand of gray hair upon the pillow next to him.

                                Ben R. Leparto

Summarizer   

Connection

                “Men crossed Miss Emily’s lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of brickwork. The broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all at the buildings.”

                Connecting to reality... We live in this world together with other people. We will to cope with a world which is challenging and something unfortunate circumstances.

                Every living we are trying to survive, we are busy doing our own business and work without minding other people but not all person is having the same mind and set principles “mind your own business;” there are people who love to get in the way others life, they crossed the boarders, sniff along just to gather information on a particular person, for some reasons that they are the only one who knows what those are. But to cross someone’s life has one reason; you have a hidden agenda; it maybe you want to use it against him or use it to help the person for you to understand him.

                Aside from that there are people who are fun of interfering your decisions in life they keep on commenting or making actions not for themselves but for others, the results maybe good or bad for that person. It will only be known when the time comes.

                That is the reality in life that cannot be erased and inevitable that there are persons who are having this personality or behaviour. As an individual we should  learn to deal with person who are like this and tend to continue your own life to survive in this crazy and sometimes gobbledgook life.

Connector

Ivy Gay Dela Cruz

Vocabulary List

Buggy – characterized by bugs: specially containing many bugs.

Example: it’s too buggy out here, let’s go outside.  

 Calligraphy – an artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering.

                Example: She specializes in scrollwork with beautiful calligraphy.

Circumvent – to manage to get around specially by ingenuity or stratagem.

                Example: Most casual joggers will be able to circumvent the reservoir without too much of rain.

Divulge – to make as a confidence or secret.

                Example: We tried him divulge the name of the winner, but he wouldn’t budge.

Dispensation – a particular arrangement or provision especially of providence of nature.

                Example: The emergency dispensation of medicine to the sick.

Edict – a proclamation having the force of law

                Example: The government issued an edict banning public demonstration.

Imperviousness – (N) not capable of being damaged or harmed.

                Example:  The material for this supposed to be impervious to rain.

Macabre – having death, a subject-comprising or including a personalized representation of death.

Pallid – deficient in color: lacking sparkler or liveliness.

                Example: A pallid man who looked as though he’d never seen the sun.

Perpetuity – the condition of an estate limited so that it will not take effect or vest within the period fixed by law.

                Example: Lands that should remain in their wild state is perpetuity.

Temerity – unreasonable or foolhardly contempt of danger or oppose.

                Example: She had the temerity to ask my boyfriend if he could go without him.

Tranquil – free from agitation of mind or spirit.

                Example: The house was once again tranquil after the kids moved outside to play.

Vanquished – to overcome in battle.

                Example: Vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe.

Vindicate – to provide justification of defence for justify.

                Example: Vowed that the evidence would completely vindicate him.

Virulent – a marked by a rapid severe, art destructive course.

                Example: The virulent look on her face warned me that she was about to say something unkind.

Vigorous – possessing vigor: full of physical or mental strength or active force.

                Example: He remains healthy and vigorous despite being over 80 years old.

Lyndie Amyvil M. Fiel

Vocabulary Enricher

Passage

“Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a northerner, a day labourer.”

I choose this line because it emphasized that the ladies there thought that Miss Grierson will not attract to Mr. Barron for Mr. Barron is just a labourer. Also they thought that Miss Emily was looking for a man who has a high standard that would fit in her expectation.

Passage Picker

Kristine Jade J. Tabanyag

GROUP 5

Members:

Cabugsan, Leonard

Ranain, Nurjalyn

Leparto, Ben

Fiel, Lyndie Amivil

Dela Cruz, Ivy Gay

Tabanyag, Kristine Jade

Submitted to:

Mr. Arnold Duping

The Gift of Magi

The Gift of Magi

GROUP 5

Member:

Cabugsan, Leonard

Ranain, Nurjalyn

Leparto, Ben

Fiel, Lyndie Amivil

Dela Cruz, Ivy Gay

Tabanyag, Kristine Jade

Submitted to:

Mr. Arnold Duping

 Illustration

I choose to draw a wrist and a comb because this thing is the reason why Della and Jim sold the greatest treasure of their life.

Della sold her beautiful hair to buy the wrist for the watch of Jim and Jim sold his watch to get money to buy the comb for Della.

And I draw a heart at the center to symbolize love, because they show love to each other through sacrificing the valuable things in their life

Kristine Jade J. Tabanyag

Illustrator

The summary

The mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the stage to the second; take a look at the home. A furnish flat at $8 per week, it did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and reached his flat above he has called “Jim” and greatly hugged by Mrs. James Dillingham Young also called “Della”.

These were two possessions of the James Dillingham Young’s in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim’s watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s the other was Della’s hair , it reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.

The Dillingham had been flung to the breeze during a former period of prosperity when its possessor was being paid $30 per week. Now, when the income was shrunk to $20 Mrs. James Dillingham Young had a hard time, in saving a penny because $20 a week doesn’t go so far.

Tomorrow would be Christmas Day, and she had only one dollar and eighty-seven cents with which to buy Jim a present. Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something, fine,  rare and sterling something- just a little bit near to being worthy of the honor if being owned by Jim.

Della cut and sold her long hair for $20 and rush to the store for Jim’s present. It was a platinum fob chain and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation. It was even worthy of the watch. $21 they took from her for it, and she hurried home with 87 cents.

Della sat on the corner of the table near the door that he always entered. Then she heard his step. The door opened and Jim steppe in the closed in. His eyes were fixed upon Della and there was an expression in them that she could not read.

Jim noticed about the hair of Della and asks what happen to her hair. Della gives an explanation to him why she cut and sold her hair.

Jim drew a package from his overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table. “I don’t think there’s anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like a girl any less”. Jim said to Della. White fingers and nimble tore at the string and paper, for there lay the combs- the set of combs, side and back, that Della had worshipped long in a Broadway window. Beautiful combs, pure tortoise shell, with jeweled rims-just the shade to wear in the beautiful vanished hair. Jim sold his watch to get the money to buy a comb for Della.

Della held his beautiful present to Jim. But instead of using it Jim had decided to put their Christmas present away and keep them for a while for it’s too nice to use just a present.

Ivy Gay A. Dela Cruz

Summarizer

Discussion

1.    Did Della play a great role in Jim’s life?

Ans. Della plays a great role in Jim’s life because, Della is the housewife of Jim in the first place and also Jim loves Della.

2.    What is the main concept of the story?

Ans. The main concept of the story is we have to love one another, celebrate Christmas even though we have no gift. Because, the important thing in Christmas is that we are complete in the family and we have strong relationship to each other with our almighty God.

3.    Why does Della want to sell her hair?

Ans. Della wants to sell her hair because he wants to buy Christmas gift to Jim.

4.    Do we need to have Christmas present?

Ans. We don’t need to have a Christmas present because, we have already received our gifts in our everyday given life by God. And the true essence of Christmas is giving thanks to god for everything. Our family, and all the things that he gave to us.

5.    What is the reaction of Jim when he saw the hair of Della?

Ans. The reaction of Jim when he saw the hair of Della is not  really good to see because, at first he get mad to Della of what she did. But when he knew the reason of Della why she cut her hair he was overwhelm and he knew from Della that they love very much each other.

Leonard A. Cabugsan

Discussion

Passage Picker

“I don’t think there’s anything in the way of a haircut or a shave or a shampoo that could make me like my girl less”

     I choose this line because the husband didn’t care of what happened to the hair of his wife. For him, his love for his wife is everlasting and no one can ruin that everlasting love. No matter what happened, the love is still there and no one can defeat it.

Lyndie Amyvil M. Fiel

Passage Picker

Connection to life

The Gift of Magi

“The Magi, as you know, were wise men- wonderfully wise men- who brought to the babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas present”.

December is the most awaited month of the year. It is the time to celebrate Christmas. One way of celebrating it, is to give present/gifts to each other. As the magi did at the time of Jesus birth, we, at the present time gave gifts to our love ones as assign that we love them and they are special to us. We see to it that we give a thing that they liked most.

We are practicing exchanging gifts at Noche Buena because we believed that the spirit of Christmas is about giving, about sharing and about loving each other. The tradition that we adapted from the Magi, two thousand years ago makes our Christmas more wonderful and memorable.

Ben R. Leparto

Connector

Vocabulary list

The Gift of Magi

·         Instigate – get something started; to cause a process to start

1.)  When Jim and Della fight, it usually money that instigates the argument.

·         It used as a transitive verb which means “reason”

2.)  The illegal logging that instigates the flood becomes more prohibited by the government.

·         Agile – able to move ease

1.)  Della’s movements were graceful and agile, like a cat’s.

·         It is used as an adjective modifying the subject “movements”

2.)  Marie’s walking style is agile.

·         Depreciate – lessen the value of something.

1.)  Will the value of the jewels depreciate, or will their worth increase?

·         It is used as transitive verb lose value.

2.)  The value of silver depreciate due to gold’s presence.

·         Cascade – a fast downward flow of liquid.

1.)  Like a cascade, tears ran down Della’s cheeks.

·         It used as transitive verb flow.

2.)  The gun on our tank caused cascade.

·         Ransacking – searching thoroughly but handling things carelessly.

1.)  Della was ransacking her pulse. Looking in every pocket for a coin.

·         It is used as transitive verb looking or searching.

2.)  She was ransacking her friend’s assignment for an answer.

·         Discreet – good at keeping secrets.

1.)  To Jim, the discreet thing to do was not to mention the gift.

·         It is used as adjective modifying the subject on the sentence.

2.)  George’s discreet attitude eared the  trusts of his friends.

·         Scrutiny – careful assessment

1.)  Carefully scrutiny of the jacket showed many wom spots.

-       It is used as noun, carefully scrutiny.

2.)  Jay reviewed his answers with scrutiny.

·         Nimble – light in movement.

1.)  With nimble hands she untied the carefully wrapped package.

-       It is an adjective modifying “hands.”

2.)  Jaya danced with nimble feet.

·         Coveted – ever longed for.

1.)  She received the coveted treasure.

-       Used an adjective modifying “treasure.”

2.)  Mrs. Santos gave the coveted grades by her students.

·         Singed a little destroyed by fire.

1.)  Della look at her singed hair, which she had burned while using the curling iron.

-       It is used as adjective modifying the “hair.”

2.)  Singed forest ruined the mountain’s beauty.

Nurjalyn Ranain

Vocabulary Enhancer