Collection 4: Your World

As you read Georgia Douglas Johnson's "Your World," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 4: Dedication of the Aerospace Medical Health Center, Mankind's Next Giant Leap, Living in the Dark, Your World
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  1. abide
    dwell
  2. narrow
    not wide
  3. distant
    located far away spatially
  4. horizon
    the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet
  5. desire
    the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
  6. immensity
    unusual largeness in size or extent or number
  7. batter
    strike violently and repeatedly
  8. cordon
    a series of sentinels or posts enclosing some place or thing
  9. cradle
    hold gently and carefully
  10. rapture
    a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
Created on Sun Jul 13 19:08:55 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:37:05 EDT 2014)

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