Collection 5: Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century

As you read Jeanne E. Arnold's "Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 5: Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century, Always Wanting More, poems about consumer society, Earth (A Gift Shop)
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  1. agentive role
    the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
  2. assemblage
    several things grouped together or considered as a whole
  3. hearth
    a built-in space in a wall where a fire can be built
  4. observation
    the act of noticing or paying attention
  5. proliferation
    a rapid increase in number
  6. artifact
    a man-made object
  7. stratum
    one of several parallel layers of material
  8. municipal
    relating to a self-governing district
  9. chronology
    an arrangement of events in time
  10. proportion
    relation with respect to comparative quantity or magnitude
  11. debut
    appear for the first time in public
  12. taper
    diminish gradually
  13. dominate
    be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
  14. precipitous
    extremely steep
  15. unprecedented
    novel; having no earlier occurrence
Created on Wed Jul 16 10:38:25 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:27:13 EDT 2014)

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