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Unit 1: The House on Mango Street; The Road Not Taken

Learn these words from the short fiction by Sandra Cisneros and the poem by Robert Frost (Inside: Level C, Unit 1).

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  1. expectation
    belief about the future
  2. rent
    a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner
  3. landlord
    a property owner who leases property or housing to others
  4. temporary
    not permanent; not lasting
  5. lottery
    a game in which players buy chances to win
  6. business
    customers collectively
  7. appreciate
    be fully aware of; realize fully
  8. strength
    the property of being physically or mentally powerful
  9. disgust
    strong feelings of dislike
  10. excuse
    a poor example
  11. violent
    acting with great force or energy or emotional intensity
  12. ferocious
    marked by extreme and violent energy
  13. velvety
    smooth and soft to sight or hearing or touch or taste
  14. powerful
    having great force or effect
  15. shame
    a painful feeling of embarrassment or inadequacy
  16. trudge
    walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
  17. march
    walk fast, with regular or measured steps
  18. diverge
    extend in a different direction
  19. claim
    an informal right to something
  20. doubt
    consider unlikely
  21. hence
    from this time
  22. difference
    a significant change
  23. sorry
    feeling or expressing regret
  24. undergrowth
    the brush beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
  25. fair
    very pleasing to the eye
  26. sigh
    an utterance made by exhaling audibly
Created on Wed Aug 03 17:08:14 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 17 15:42:17 EDT 2016)

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