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Unit 8: Holding Up the Sky; The Girl and the Chenoo

Learn these words from the Chinese folk tale and the play by Joseph Bruchac (Inside: Level C, Unit 8).

Here are our links to the selections of "Food for Thought": Feeding the World, Market Women; Soup for the Soul, Would it be fun to run a restaurant, Holding Up the Sky; The Girl and the Chenoo, The Omnivore's Dilemma; Math for Locavores

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  1. tiny
    very small
  2. sneer
    express through a scornful smile
  3. talent
    natural abilities or qualities
  4. engage
    keep involved
  5. confident
    persuaded of; very sure
  6. brag
    show off
  7. chuckle
    laugh quietly or with restraint
  8. hesitant
    unable to act or decide quickly or firmly
  9. modest
    marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
  10. unison
    the act of occurring together or simultaneously
  11. mime
    act out with gestures and bodily movements only
  12. imagine
    form a mental image of something that is not present
  13. feast
    a meal that is elaborate and well prepared
  14. snatch
    grasp hastily or eagerly
  15. pierce
    move or affect deeply or sharply
  16. provide
    give what is desired or needed, as support or sustenance
  17. fork
    the act of branching out or dividing into branches
  18. crooked
    having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
  19. stream
    a natural body of water flowing on or under the earth
  20. defeat
    win a victory over
  21. stumble
    miss a step and fall or nearly fall
  22. gradual
    proceeding in small stages
  23. relieved
    made easier to bear
  24. graze
    feed as in a meadow or pasture
  25. creep
    go stealthily or furtively
  26. react
    show a response to something
  27. honor
    the state of being esteemed
  28. stalk
    walk stiffly
  29. puzzled
    filled with bewilderment
  30. relative
    a person connected by blood or marriage
  31. paralyze
    cause to be immobile
  32. terror
    an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
  33. stride
    walk with long steps
  34. trade
    the commercial exchange of goods and services
  35. elderly
    very old or advanced in years
  36. volume
    the magnitude of sound, usually in a specified direction
  37. shaggy
    having long, thick, and poorly groomed hair or fur
  38. trail
    a track or mark left by something that has passed
  39. thud
    make a heavy, dull sound
  40. rumble
    utter or emit low, dull, resonant sounds
Created on Wed Aug 03 14:27:21 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 17 16:13:00 EDT 2016)

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