Vocabulary Words for The Handmaid’s Tale Chapters 1-4

Guess what the word means.

Define the word.

Use the word in sentence.

1. I could smell, faintly like an afterimage, the pungent scent of sweat.

2. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.

3. The skirt is ankle-length, full, gathered to a flat yoke that extends over the breasts.

4. She’s making bread, throwing the loaves for the final brief kneading and then the shaping.

5. Gently, we would complain, our voices soft and minor key and mournful as pigeons in the eaves troughs.

6. I used to tease him about being pedantic.

7. I thought I was sounding like that, voice of a monotone, voice of a doll.

8. It’s black, of course, the color of prestige or a hearse, and long and sleek.

9. But his cap is tilted at a jaunty angle and his sleeves are rolled to the elbow.

10. He’s too casual, he’s not servile enough.