"Identity"

The identity of the poet is Julio Noboa Polanco, a native New Yorker whose focus is on Latino heritage, history, and education. But in the poem, his identity is compared to that of "a tall, ugly weed" and a high-flying eagle.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 4's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Poetry, poemcrazy, Nikki-Rosa, We Real Cool, Fast Break, Identity, Ego Tripping, Hanging Fire, odes, Sonnet 18, In Response to Executive Order 9066, Young, Poetry Cafe, poems by Nikki Giovanni
10 words 330 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. harness
    keep in check
    Let them be as flowers
    always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
    but harnessed to a pot of dirt.
  2. waver
    move in a rising and falling pattern
    I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed,
    clinging on cliffs, like an eagle
    wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.
  3. expose
    abandon by leaving out in the open air
    To have broken through the surface of stone,
    to live, to feel exposed to the madness
  4. vast
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
    of the vast, eternal sky
  5. bizarre
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
    beyond the mountains of time or into the abyss of the bizarre
  6. shun
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
    I'd rather be unseen, and if
    then shunned by everyone
  7. cluster
    a grouping of a number of similar things
    than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,
    growing in clusters in the fertile valley
  8. praise
    express approval of
    where they're praised, handled, and plucked
    by greedy human hands
  9. musty
    covered with or smelling of mold
    I'd rather smell of musty, green stench
  10. fragrant
    pleasant-smelling
    than of sweet, fragrant lilac
Created on Wed Sep 24 18:07:13 EDT 2014 (updated Fri Sep 26 16:43:36 EDT 2014)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.