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“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin
Build Vocabulary
Spelling Strategy To form the plural of a word ending in a consonant plus y, change the
y to i and add es: importunity becomes importunities. For words that end in a vowel plus y,
simply add s to form the plural: days, monkeys.
Using the Prefix foreThe prefix fore- means “before” in the sense of time, place, or condition.
A. DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the best definition of each of the following words having the
prefix fore.
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1. foreleg
a. action taken before a loan is lost
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2. forenoon
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3. forecast
b. part of a book that comes before the main
section
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4. forewarn
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5. foreword
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6. foreclosure
c. front leg of any animal having four or more
legs
d. prediction made before a weather system
arrives
e. another word for the morning, the part of
the day before 12 o’clock P.M.
f. give notice before a bad event occurs
Using the Word Bank
forestall
repression
tumultuously
importunities
elusive
B. DIRECTIONS: Select the Word Bank word that relates best to each situation, and write the
word on the line.
1. Mrs. Mallard’s previous actions regarding her feelings about her marriage
2. Josephine’s whispered pleas at her sister’s bedroom door
3. the way Mrs. Mallard’s imaginings about the free days ahead of her went through her mind
4. Richards’s attempt to keep the shock of seeing her husband alive from Mrs. Mallard
5. the mysterious, unsolvable nature of love
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