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Unit 8: Wings

Learn these words from the short story by Christopher Myers (Inside: Level A, Unit 8).

Here are our links to the selections of "Art and Soul": Old Music Finds New Voices; When I Sing, Making Faces, Wings, Icarus and Daedalus, Pas de Trois

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  1. proud
    feeling self-respect, self-esteem, or self-importance
  2. whisper
    speak softly, in a low voice
  3. complain
    express discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness
  4. useless
    having no beneficial utility
  5. stare
    look at with fixed eyes
  6. wag
    move from side to side
  7. figure out
    find the solution to or understand the meaning of
  8. snicker
    laugh quietly
  9. impressed
    deeply or markedly affected or influenced
  10. drift
    be in motion due to some air or water current
  11. struggle
    make a strenuous or labored effort
  12. droop
    hang loosely or laxly
  13. explode
    burst outward, usually with noise
  14. sail
    move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions
  15. swirl
    turn in a twisting or spinning motion
Created on Sun Aug 07 14:49:26 EDT 2016 (updated Mon Aug 15 13:27:07 EDT 2016)

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