Our vocab word for The Prince and the Pauper Chapter 28 focuses on a commonly-used word. It typically evokes a particular image in people’s minds. The vocab word is…
MOB
Keep reading or watch the video below see how the word ‘mob’ is used in The Prince and the Pauper.
MOB
| DEFINITION (n.) a large and disorderly crowd of people | FACTS/CHARACTERISTICS often bent on riotous or destructive action |
| EXAMPLES crowd flock throng | NON-EXAMPLES solitude hermit |
Etymology
- Language of Origin: Latin
- Mobile vulgus = “vacillating crowd”
Sentences/Additional Forms
- Straightforward sentence: After leaving the basketball game, I lost my friend in the mob outside the arena.
- Sentence from the chapter: “There sat his poor henchman in the degrading stocks, the sport and butt of a dirty mob…” (p. 171)
- Other forms: mob (v.), mobbish (adj.)
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