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Unit 1: Familiar Places

Learn these words from the expository nonfiction by Elizabeth Boylan (Inside: Level A, Unit 1).

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  1. community
    a group of people living in a particular local area
  2. population
    the number of inhabitants in a given place
  3. tradition
    a specific practice of long standing
  4. agree
    achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose
  5. delicious
    extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
  6. stew
    food prepared by slowly cooking meat or fish with vegetables
  7. familiar
    well known or easily recognized
  8. fabric
    artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting fibers
  9. sari
    a draped dress worn primarily by Hindu women
  10. kameez
    a long tunic worn by people from South Asia
  11. neighborhood
    an area within a city or town that has distinctive features
  12. sway
    move back and forth
  13. native
    belonging to one by birth
  14. festival
    an organized series of acts and performances
  15. celebrate
    have a festivity
  16. decoration
    something used to beautify
Created on Fri Aug 05 12:04:59 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 17 15:04:08 EDT 2016)

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