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Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street 81 words

February 5, 2010 By Ivete (New York, NY)Top 10 Word Lister
Vocabulary study list for Sandra Cisneros's "The House on Mango Street"

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  1. internal rhyme
    a rhyme between words in the same line
  2. mango
    large evergreen tropical tree cultivated for its large oval fruit
  3. saddle shoe
    an oxford with a saddle of contrasting color
  4. meme
    a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)
  5. sexuality
    the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles
  6. exploitative
    tending to exploit or make use of
  7. sexually
    with respect to sexuality
  8. clunky
    lacking grace in movement or posture
  9. neighborhood
    an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
  10. sexual assault
    a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat
  11. change over
    make a shift in or exchange of
  12. front yard
    the yard in front of a house; between the house and the street
  13. unfulfilled
    of persons; marked by failure to realize full potentialities
  14. mutually exclusive
    unable to be both true at the same time
  15. attractiveness
    the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts
  16. autonomy
    immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence
  17. spindly
    long and lean
  18. motif
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work
  19. relegate
    assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
  20. resilience
    the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit
  21. unconvincing
    not convincing
  22. suede
    leather with a napped surface
  23. trapped
    forced to turn and face attackers
  24. mature
    having reached full natural growth or development
  25. backyard
    the grounds in back of a house
  26. powerlessness
    the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
  27. responsibility
    the social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force
  28. tether
    tie with a tether
  29. isolating
    relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles
  30. unsure
    lacking self-confidence
  31. femininity
    the trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women
  32. persevere
    be persistent, refuse to stop
  33. unspecified
    not stated explicitly or in detail
  34. empower
    give or delegate power or authority to
  35. befriend
    become friends with
  36. street
    a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
  37. last name
    the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)
  38. underscore
    give extra weight to (a communication)
  39. language
    a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
  40. vignette
    a brief literary description
  41. paralyze
    cause to be paralyzed and immobile
  42. manipulate
    influence or control shrewdly or deviously
  43. emphasize
    to stress, single out as important
  44. fascinate
    to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe
  45. inadequacy
    a lack of competence
  46. unchanging
    showing little if any change
  47. neighbor
    a person who lives (or is located) near another
  48. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  49. resonance
    having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant
  50. isolate
    place or set apart
  51. poem
    a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
  52. heritage
    that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner
  53. self-consciousness
    self-awareness plus the additional realization that others are similarly aware of you
  54. personify
    attribute human qualities to something
  55. rhyme
    correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
  56. evoke
    call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  57. automatically
    in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism
  58. bazaar
    a street of small shops (especially in Orient)
  59. canteen
    sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc.
  60. cockscomb
    the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds
  61. crumple
    to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
  62. cumulus
    a globular cloud
  63. double Dutch
    the difficult version of jump rope in which players jump over two ropes that are swung in a crisscross manner by two turners
  64. floorboard
    a board in the floor
  65. goblet
    a drinking glass with a base and stem
  66. holler
    utter a sudden loud cry
  67. inherit
    receive from a predecessor
  68. invention
    the act of inventing
  69. invisible
    impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye
  70. jingling
    having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells
  71. landlord
    a landowner who leases to others
  72. Laundromat
    a self-service laundry (service mark Laundromat) where coin-operated washing machines are available to individual customers
  73. linoleum
    a floor covering
  74. marimba
    a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets
  75. naphtha
    any of various volatile flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures; used chiefly as solvents
  76. nimbus
    a dark grey cloud bearing rain
  77. scuff
    walk without lifting the feet
  78. soggy
    (of soil) soft and watery
  79. somersault
    an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
  80. temporary
    not permanent; not lasting
  81. zillion
    a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)