English 12 - Vocabulary 12-10: Sentences

I _____ my interest in Jane Austen to an English teacher who attributed his own initial interest to a seemingly _____ fact: His last name, too was Austen.

ascribe...inconsequential

I don't think that Austen would have wanted a(n) _____ written about her. If anything, I think she would want to be memorialized in a comic poem or story.

elegy

Reading Austen's novels _____, or created, my interest in researching _____ among supposedly shy authors who write forceful and sometimes controversial books.

engendered...introversion

Austen's early work Love and Freindship (her spelling) contains a few cliched, overused ideas, but the work as a whole is not _____.

hackneyed

Austen lets readers know her ideas about moral values without writing _____ that might bore them. She knows how to make her point without preaching.

homilies

Don't make the mistake of considering Austen's earlier writings to be totally _____; there is much in them that has value and substance.

inconsequential

What I like about Austen is that she can make ______, or immaterial, conversations sound fascinating and not at all _____.

inconsequential...humdrum

Some people cannot decide whether Austen was an extrovert or a(n) _____, or whether Austen thought her life was _____ or exciting.

introvert...humdrum

Because I consider Austen to be a(n) _____ of an accomplished author, she is the ideal for my own writing career.

paragon

Only such a(n) _____of writing talent could communicate people's personal oddities, or _____, so well.

paragon...idiosyncrasies