Collection 5: Poems About Consumer Society

As you compare X.J. Kennedy's "Dump" and Gary Soto's "How Things Work," 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. brink
    the edge of a steep place
  2. clamber
    an awkward climb
  3. steep
    having a sharp inclination
  4. discard
    getting rid something regarded as useless or undesirable
  5. rout
    defeat with dire consequences
  6. shingle
    building material used as siding or roofing
  7. stale
    lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration
  8. aloof
    distant, cold, or detached in manner
  9. petrify
    cause to become stunned or immobile, as with fear or awe
  10. acrid
    strong and sharp, as a taste or smell
  11. rankle
    make resentful or angry
  12. rosin
    any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules
  13. filter
    run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
  14. belligerent
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
  15. purchase
    something acquired by buying
Created on Wed Jul 16 11:09:39 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:26:57 EDT 2014)

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