Welcome to Vocab in the Classics. Here we look at selections from Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Now, let us meet Ichabod Crane, the protagonist of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.”
There was something extremely provoking in this obstinately pacific system; it left Brom no alternative but to draw upon the funds of rustic waggery in his disposition, and to play off boorish practical jokes upon his rival. Ichabod became the object of whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders. They harried his hitherto peaceful domains; smoked out his singing school by stopping up the chimney; broke into the schoolhouse at night… and turned everything topsy-turvy, so that the poor schoolmaster began to think all the witches in the country held their meetings there.
Choose your own answer to this GRE Antonyms question before clicking “more”:
BOORISH:
A. exciting
B. conversant
C. inept
D. decorous
E. magniloquent
Answer: D
Tomorrow we learn more about poor, beleaguered Ichabod!