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Vocabulary and Analysis of "If" Poem

The document contains a vocabulary list with definitions for words such as 'impostor,' 'twisted,' and 'virtue.' It also features the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, which outlines the qualities and virtues necessary for personal integrity and resilience in the face of adversity. The poem emphasizes the importance of maintaining composure, humility, and perseverance throughout life's challenges.

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Vocabulary and Analysis of "If" Poem

The document contains a vocabulary list with definitions for words such as 'impostor,' 'twisted,' and 'virtue.' It also features the poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling, which outlines the qualities and virtues necessary for personal integrity and resilience in the face of adversity. The poem emphasizes the importance of maintaining composure, humility, and perseverance throughout life's challenges.

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VOCABULARY

1. impostor – one that assumes false


identity for the purpose of
deception(noun)
[Link]- manipulated(verb or
adjective)
[Link] -tricky, deceitful
person(noun)
4. trap – something by which one is
caught (noun or verb)
5. sinew - a piece of tough fibrous
tissue uniting muscle to bone or bone to
bone; a tendon or ligament.(noun)
6. virtue – conformity to the standard
of right (noun)
7. worn out – old, useless( adjective)

IF
Rudyard Kipling

1865 –1936
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;


If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings


And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,


Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son.

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