Vocabulary

The Word:Frugal

Part Of Speech:

The Source Sentece and (Page Number):After having baby-sat for every frugal in town, i eventually hit the mother lode. (Pg.123)

Context Clues:"Dollars"

Definiton:economical in use or expenditure


Your Original Sentence: When I clean I'm real frugal about my work.

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The Word:Vacillate

Part Of Speech: Verb

The Source Sentence and (Page Number):We vacillate and fluctuate. (Pg.153)

Context Clues:fluctuate

Definiton:to waver in mind or opinion


Your Original Sentence: When it comes to voting I must vacillate.

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The Word: Dote

Part Of Speech:Verb

The Source Sentence and (Page Numeber): Now, whenever we visit my relatives, all of whom dote on my husband, I realize that he didn't marry me despite my tribe, he marriedme because of them. (Pg. 103)

Context Clues: together, we form a colorful and elaborate...

Definition: to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually

Your Original Sentence: When I play soccer, fans dote on me.

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The Word: Mantra

Part Of Speech:Noun

The Source Sentence and (Page Number):"I should've sold everything and brought the money to America a long time ago" became his mantra. (Pg.129)

Context Clues:revolution

Definition:A word or formula, as from the Veda, chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.

Your Original Sentence: Since I've been a child my mantra has been "goal" after a goal in a soccer game.

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The Word:Noxious

Part Of Speech: Adjective

The Source Sentence and (Page Number):Without taking a break, I scrubbed intensely, trying my best not to inhale the noxious fumes.

Context Clues: inhale, fumes

Definition:Harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.

Your Original Sentence: For the army my cousin was to gain discipline by walking into a toxic room, so that made my cousin a bit noxious.

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The Word: Staunch

Part of Speech: Verd

The Source Sentence and (Page Number): In 1980, however, despite my father's staunch devotion, an accent that fairness, he was still a foreigner with an accent, an accent that after the after the Iranian Revolution was associated with all things bad.

Context Clues: My mother rarely questions my father's choice...

Definition: firm or steadfast in principle, adherence, loyalty, ect., as a person

Your Original Sentence: Considering my past I see my father as a staunch man.

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The Word: Tutelage

Part of Speech: Noun

The Source Sentence and (Page Number): I had been taking French since seventh grade, and under the tutelage of my high school teacher, Mr. Polkingharn, affectionately know as Le Polk, I had become quite fluent. ( 130)

Context Clues: affectionately..

Definition: the act of guarding protecting, or guiding, office or function of a guardian; guardianship. 

Your Original Sentence: I was tutelage by my parents in Mexico.

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The Word: Backdrop

Part of Speech: Noun

The Source Sentence and (Page Number): Against this backdrop of teenage angst, there would have to be a symbol, a representation of the confidence that comes with eventual intellectual and spiritual growth.

Context Clues: There would be no theme song...

Definition: A painted cloth hung at the back of a stage set. Also called backcloth

Your Original Sentence: Backdrops seem to be at every show.

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Word: Exclusion

Part of Speech: Noun

The Source and Page #: "...familiarity with different cultural formsstems from patterns of exclusion throughout history, as well asintegration into networks..." P. 41

Context Clues: The word "integration" is an antonym for exclusion.

Definition: to prevent from using; state of being excluding

Your Original Sentence: The teacher made an exclusion that I must not usepencil when I write my notes.

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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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The word: Sensuous

Part of Speech: adjective

The source sentence and (page number):When the meal was finally ready, we all sat together and savored the sensuous experience of a delicious Persian meal (pg. 25)

Context Clues: savord the sensuous experience of a delicious persian meal.

Definition: relating to ur affecting the sences rather than the intellect.

Your original sentence: The sensuous feeling of driving drive me to another level.

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The Word: Ubiquitous

Part of Speech: Adjective

The Source Sentence and Page #:“The media is also ubiquitous- present in airports, elevators, classrooms, bars and restaurants, and hospital waiting room.” P. 42

Context Clues:Saying it was present in all these different places, infers that its common or everywhere.

Definition:Existing everywhere; Inescapable

Your Original Sentence:Student are ubiquitous on a college campus.

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The word: Lavished

Part of Speech: Adjective

The Source Sentence and (Page Number):“People lavished compliments on me” p. 11

Context Clues:Compliments and the impression the people gave her recommend that they were generous and extravagant because she new English. Syn.

Definition:Expending or bestowing profusely, generous way, extravagant, abundant, profuse.

Your Original Sentence:I was lavished with many roses on my graduation.