LAST ONE!!!!

Vocabulary - The Catcher in the Rye Chapters 22 - 26

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.

34. All they did with the guys that were in the room with him was expel them. They didn't even go to jail.

35. She gets headaches quite frequently.

36. And if the boy digresses at all, you're supposed to yell. "Digression!" at him as fast as you can.

37. Holden . . . One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything?

38. Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer.

39. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement.


Part II: Determining the Meaning Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

_____34. expel A. Strays temporarily from the main topic
_____35. frequently B. Characteristic of teaching or teachers
_____36. digresses C. Interchangeable; complimentary
_____37. pedagogical D. Often
_____38. stenographer E. One who takes shorthand
_____39. reciprocal F. Push out by force