Unit 3: Speaking Up

Learn these words from the news features (Inside: Level C, Unit 3).

Here are our links to the selections of "Making a Difference": The Civil Rights Movement, Midway, Martin's Big Words; I Have a Dream, Speaking Up, Speeches on the Little Rock Nine

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  1. challenge
    a demanding or stimulating situation
  2. negative
    having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant
  3. involved
    connected by participation or association or use
  4. ethnic
    distinctive of the ways of living of a group of people
  5. minority
    a group of people who differ from a larger group
  6. flee
    run away quickly
  7. promote
    contribute to the progress or growth of
  8. positive
    characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance
  9. editorial
    an article giving opinions or perspectives
  10. recruit
    register formally as a participant or member
  11. rich
    having abundant supply of desirable qualities or substances
  12. spark
    put in motion or move to act
  13. leadership
    the ability to take charge
  14. underestimate
    assign too low a value to
  15. prestigious
    having an excellent reputation; respected
  16. immerse
    devote fully to
  17. contribute
    be conducive to
  18. witness
    be someone who sees an event and reports what happened
  19. role
    the actions and activities assigned to a person or group
  20. overcome
    get on top of; deal with successfully
  21. inferior
    of or characteristic of low rank or importance
  22. consent
    permission to do something
  23. self-esteem
    a feeling of pride in yourself
  24. accessible
    capable of being reached
  25. extend
    stretch out one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body
  26. limb
    one of the jointed appendages of an animal
Created on Thu Aug 04 14:09:51 EDT 2016 (updated Thu Aug 04 14:27:36 EDT 2016)

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