𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒚 𝑶𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒆

 

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray, moral fantasy novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde, published in an early form in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. The novel, the only one written by Wilde, had six additional chapters when it was released as a book in 1891. The work, an archetypal tale of a young man who purchases eternal youth at the expense of his soul, was a romantic exposition of Wilde’s own aestheticism. (https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde)

Words to be Hunted:

Servant

“A servant came across the garden towards them”.

Pronunciation: [ˈsərvənt] (noun)

Meaning: A person who is employed in another person's house, doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning, especially in the past.

 Examples: 

1. The servant attends on his master.

2. Why doesn't the servant come when I call?

3. Tell the servant to knock me up at five o'clock.

4. I sent my servant about her business.

Servants atending a party

Frightened

“He was very different now from the frightened boy in Basil Hallward's house”.

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Pronunciation: [ˈfrītnd] (adjective).

Meaning: feeling fear or worry.

Examples:

1. She looked dazed and frightened.

2. The child is frightened by the ugly man.

3. The noise frightened the child.

4. I was frightened of him when I saw him first.

Sailor

“My new life as a sailor will keep me away from England for many years”.

Pronunciation: [ˈsālər] (noun).

Meaning: a person who works on a ship, especially one who is not an officer.

Examples:

1. He was a young sailor on his first sea voyage.

2. The boy decided not to become a sailor.

3. The sailor told of his adventures on sea.

4. The sailor would join his ship a few days later.

Drip

“He could hear nothing, only the drip, drip of blood onto the floor”.

Pronunciation: [drɪp] (verb).

Meaning: If a liquid drips, it falls in drops, or you make it fall in drops. To produce drops of liquid.

Examples:

1. A drip of water fell from the tap.

2. He was taken off his drip last night.

3. They crowd around me and their eyes drip blood.

4. All I could hear was the drip of the rain from the roof.

Scent

“Through the open windows of the room came the rich scent of summer flowers”.

Pronunciation: [sent] (noun).

Meaning:  a pleasant natural smell.

Examples:

1. These flowers have no scent.

2. The air was filled with the scent of wild flowers.

3. Female ants release pheromones from their scent glands.

4. The press could scent a scandal.

Ashamed

“Dorian felt sick and ashamed. He did not know what to do, or what to think”.

Pronunciation: [əˈSHāmd] (adjective).

Meaning: feeling guilty or embarrassed about something you have done or about a quality

in your character.

Examples:

1. He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

2. I'm ashamed that I did that.

3. You should be ashamed of yourself for telling such lies.

4. I felt ashamed of the things I'd said to him.

Fetch

“Dorian sent his servant to fetch the things that Campbell needed...”.

Pronunciation: [fetʃ] (verb).

Meaning: to go to another place to get something or someone and bring it, him, or her

back.

Examples:

1. Will you fetch some water?

2. Please fetch that book along.

3. I have to fetch my mother from the station.

4. This glass has been used. Please fetch me a clean one.

Opium

“There he knew places where he could get opium”.

Pronunciation: [ˈōpēəm] (noun).

Meaning: : a drug made from the seeds of a poppy (red flower) that is used to control pain or to help people sleep. It can make a person who takes it want more of it and is sometimes used by people as an illegal drug for pleasure.

Examples:

1. He was forced to take opium to kill the pain.

2. But what kind of person would want opium?

3. She was certainly not an opium smoker.

4. The architect must have been an opium friend.

Lift

“He lifted his coffee cup. 'What happened to the fine portrait that Basil painted of you?”.

Pronunciation: [lɪft] (verb).

Meaning: to move something from a lower to a higher position.

Examples:

1. He's strong enough to lift a car!

2. Come and help me lift this box.

3. Can you give me a lift?

4. Lift me up, mummy I can't see.

   
   
   

Narrow

“As Dorian hurried up the narrow stairs...”

Pronunciation: [ˈnerō] (adjective)

Meaning: having a small distance from one side to the other, especially in comparison

with the length.

Examples:

1. The curriculum was too narrow and too rigid.

2. The stairs were very narrow.

3. The road was too narrow for cars to pass.

4. This coat is too narrow across the shoulders.

Dug

“He picked up the knife and dug it into the picture”.

Pronunciation: [dəɡ] (verb)

Meaning: past simple and past participle of dig. If people or animals dig, they make a hole in the ground or in a pile of earth, stones, or rubbish.

Examples:

1. They dug a pit to bury the rubbish.

2. She dug her fingernails into my neck.

3. He dug a deep hole in the garden.

4. We dug a deep pit in the yard.

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Fuentes:

McDonald, R. (2018). Brittanica.

Recuperado de https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray-novel-by-Wilde