Collection 3: Mississippi Solo

As you read Eddy Harris's "Mississippi Solo," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 3: Mississippi Solo, The Tempest, Allied with Green, Big Rocks' Balancing Acts, poems about nature
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  1. monotony
    the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety
  2. Natchez
    a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River
  3. puce
    a color varying from dark purplish brown to dark red
  4. idle
    silly or trivial
  5. avalanche
    a slide of large masses of snow, ice and mud down a mountain
  6. dale
    an open valley in a hilly area
  7. scant
    less than the correct or legal or full amount
  8. insulate
    surround with material to protect from heat, cold, or noise
  9. instinct
    inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to stimuli
  10. splintery
    resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points
  11. maneuver
    direct the course of or determine the direction of traveling
  12. sturdy
    substantially made or constructed
  13. expose
    abandon by leaving out in the open air
  14. envelop
    enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
  15. ethereal
    characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
Created on Wed Jul 09 12:09:51 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:35:08 EDT 2014)

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