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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