1. “The Necklace” vocabulary

2. Rueful • (adj) expressing sorrow or regret, esp. when in a slightly humorous way.

3. alienate • (v) cause (someone) to feel isolated or estranged.

4. Disheveled • (adj) (of a person's hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy; disordered.

5. Coerce • (v) persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

6. Aghast • (adj) filled with horror or shock.

7. Adulation • (n) excessive admiration or praise.

8. Pauper • (n) a very poor person.

9. Demise • (n) a person's death.

10. chic • (n) smart elegance and sophistication especially of dress or manner

11. Dowry • (n) money or property that a wife or wife's family gives to her husband when the wife and husband marry in some cultures

12. Usurer • (n) a person who lends money at unreasonably high rates of interest.

13. Vexation • (n) the state of being annoyed, frustrated, or worried.

14. Blunder • (n/v) a stupid or careless mistake/ to make a stupid or careless mistake

15. adorn • (v) make more beautiful or attractive.

16. Caste • (n) a division of society based upon differences of wealth, rank, or occupation

17. Lofty • (adj) rising to a great height : very tall and impressive

18. Indignant • (adj) feeling or showing anger because of something that is unfair or wrong : very angry

19. Desolate • (adj) very sad and lonely especially because someone you love has died or left

20. Vestibule • (n) an entrance hall inside a building

21. Disconsolate • (adj) without consolation or comfort; unhappy.