Thursday, September 17, 2009

Vocabulary

The Word: Baklavas

Part of Speech: Noun

The Source Sentence and (Page Number): In Berkeley, and only in Berkeley, my name drew people like flies to baklava. Pg. 64

Context Clues: I used my logic to figure out the word Baklavas through my own knowledge "flies fly to food."

Definition: a Near Eastern pastry made of many layers of paper-thin dough with a filling of ground nuts, baked and then drenched in a syrup of honey and sometimes rosewater.

Your Original Sentence: At a dount shop near my house they sell baklavas.

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