READING 2 OF 23 focus words
Context study 2
Read for meaning first. Select a highlighted word if you want a closer look.
She wrote an elegy for the teacher who had encouraged her. The garden offered an elysian refuge from the noisy street. An emissary arrived with a proposal for renewed talks.
The final poem is an elegy for a vanished way of life. The poet imagined an elysian landscape beyond the mountains. The council sent an emissary to the neighboring town.
Before you move on
Look away from the passage. Can you explain each focus word in your own words?
Original fictional passages for vocabulary practice.