We welcome you to our "classic text" site where vocabulary has been pulled from many recommended texts. I have suggestions for your FAQ: How can you, as a teacher, student and/or life-long learner use the V.U. classic texts vocabulary lists?
(Tip 1) Individually or as a group, choose words that are unknown to you from the list. To help memorize, look up and write down the definition, part of speech and use the new word in a sentence of more than 6 words.
(Tip 2) Write a story, postcard, letter or journal entry using 15-25 words in context.
(Tip 3) Working individually or in a group, pair synonyms and/or antonyms. Determine how many words are adjectives, nouns and verbs.
Remember, vocabulary mastery comes from encountering new words in assigned reading, in studying vocabulary word lists and using words in context."
A high school recommended book Warriors Don't Cry written by Melba Pattillo Beals, gives the student the opportunity to learn vocabulary in context. We have selected 92 words to encourage study and provide helpful clues in learning.
(Teachers: If you have a vocabulary list for this book (or for others) that you would share with us, email Jan and Carey Cook. We will post it and give you attribution, if you wish! Thanks for helping us!!!)
Warriors Don't Cry written by Melba Pattillo Beals in order of appearance:
INTRODUCTION: copious, nonchalant (also on p. 168), camaraderie, barraged (also on p. 186, 213, & 296), impeccably
CHAPTER 1: crinoline (also on p. 268), unequivocally, catapulted, benevolent (also on p. 195), forceps, indignant (also on p. 271)
CHAPTER 2: stark, sepia, prime, chide (also on p. 43 & 151), picaninny, hostler, placating, ominous (also on p. 220 & 309), chastising (also on p. 44 & 205), kowtow (also on p. 17)
CHAPTER 3: Hades
CHAPTER 4: pallor, meticulous (also on p. 139, 194, & 281), feisty (also on p. 70 & 72), fedora
CHAPTER 5: futile
CHAPTER 6: feigned
CHAPTER 7: reverberate, brusquely, tarry, pristine, rumpus room, parody
CHAPTER 8: respite, incendiary, hooligans (also on p. 140 & 213)
CHAPTER 9: moot, gauntlet (also on p. 112)
CHAPTER 10: clamor, anteroom
CHAPTER 11: disheveled, articulate, jeopardize, quash
CHAPTER 12: placid, pristine, respite, amended, demise
CHAPTER 14: inflammatory
CHAPTER 15: disseminating, gabardine (also on p. 178), pouf
CHAPTER 16: fiasco, ineptness, disheveled, reverberated, belligerent (also on p. 300), effigy
CHAPTER 17: poultice
CHAPTER 18: ostracized (ostracism on p. 198 & 274), adamant (also on p. 244), dither, garbled, trounced, frivolity
CHAPTER 19: edict
CHAPTER 20: insidious, melee
CHAPTER 21: respite, stave off, gingerly, fracas
CHAPTER 22: proviso, impasse
CHAPTER 25: veneer, adamant, inconsolable (also on p. 305), renegade (also on p. 308)
CHAPTER 26: vicarious, emaciated
CHAPTER 27: gauntlet, adversaries, insolent, accolades
CHAPTER 28: deity, tenacious, unmitigated, veneer, enclave, livid
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