Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Page 28-32 Call Me Maria Vocabulary

Please make sure to study these words for homework along with your reading logs every night!

Foreign (adj) - from another country
Nostalgic (adj) - thinking about old times, remembering happily
Prejudge (v) - to have an opinion BEFORE you know the situation
Bring (v) - to carry or take with you
Fantasy (n) - imagination, not real
Underestimate (v) - to think something is less than it really is
Constant (adj, n) - all the time, doesn’t change
Refugee (n) - a person who has to leave their home country to go to another country to be safe
Accent (n) - the style of a person’s language (same word, different way to pronounce it.)
Presence (n) - your being here, cannot ignore
Transform (v) - to change
Hard (adj) - difficult, or strong and opposite of soft
Magnet (n) - a metal that sticks to other metal
Glistening (adj) - shining, especially in the sun
Compose (v) - to create, like music or writing
Persecution (n) - accusing and treating badly
Battle (n) - a very big, very bad fight
Claim (v) - to say, to state, also to say it is yours
Rattling (v) - shaking, moving and making noise
Loyal (adj) - a person who is honest, you can trust and is always there for you
Envy (v) - to be jealous
Advantage (n) - something good or important
Values (n)- what something is worth, also what you believe
Idealized - perfect, like in your imagination
Myth (n) - a story many people believe, but there is no proof that it is true. Also, a genre of writing

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