Collection 6: Train Time

As you read D'Arcy McNickle's "Train Time," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 7's Collection 6: history writings about the Triangle Factory Fire, Uprising, Working Toward Peace, A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long, Train Time
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  1. exasperated
    greatly annoyed; out of patience
  2. conscience
    conformity to one's own sense of right conduct
  3. vivify
    make more striking or animated
  4. rheumatism
    any painful disorder of the joints or muscles
  5. ponderous
    having great mass and weight and unwieldiness
  6. asthmatic
    relating to breathing with a whistling sound
  7. squaw
    an American Indian woman
  8. hatchet
    a small ax with a short handle used with one hand
  9. pneumonia
    a serious illness of the lungs that makes it difficult to breathe
  10. sustenance
    a source of food or nourishment
  11. croup
    a disease of infants and young children
  12. inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
  13. quota
    a prescribed number
  14. ignorance
    the lack of knowledge or education
  15. remorse
    a feeling of deep regret, usually for some misdeed
Created on Fri Jul 18 11:51:43 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:18:14 EDT 2014)

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