Grade 11, American Literature: Unit 5

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

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VOCABULARY LISTS IN THIS COLLECTION:

Academic Vocabulary

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- address
- blunt
- convey
- diffuse
- execute
- harbor
- launch
- resolution
- sheer
- term
Selection Vocabulary 1

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- crude
- stimulate
- regeneration
- destitute
- curious
- disposition
- delicacy
- jaunty
- penitentiary
- amble
Selection Vocabulary 2

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- exceedingly
- arbitrary
- adequate
- deterioration
- render
- alleviate
- unilaterally
- rigamarole
- savor
- torrent
- sieve
- delegation
Selection Vocabulary 3

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- undercurrent
- crestfallen
- tramp
- resolve
- reminiscence
- sharecropper
- grovel
- reflective
- epitaph
- despise
Selection Vocabulary 4

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- discrimination
- provision
- espouse
- arbitrary
- skeptic
- simple
- colored
- antiseptic
- butcher
- outstretched
- crane
- lather
Selection Vocabulary 5

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- foundation
- tangible
- detrimental
- sanction
- inherently
- discrimination
- transient
- substantial
- scope
- trek
- development
- vacillating
- process
- base
Novel Study: The Poisonwood Bible, Books One–Three

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- amoral
- meager
- contingency
- squabble
- vigor
- laxity
- pestilence
- precariously
- venture
- terse
- render
- incentive
- concoct
- ornery
- elocution
- benediction
- elongate
- wanting
- emaciated
- petulant
- glower
- elucidate
- coy
- cajole
- dissimulation
- apparition
- delude
- lapse
- vivacious
- coax
- dominion
Novel Study: The Poisonwood Bible, Books Four–Five

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- surmise
- unfettered
- impudence
- flout
- culprit
- periphery
- progeny
- unequivocal
- iridescent
- potent
- reticent
- audacity
- refectory
- register
- brazen
- ravenous
- derelict
- belligerent
- fabrication
- convalescence
- salve
- culpability
- benevolence
- deftly
Novel Study: A Raisin in the Sun, Act 1

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- primary
- apparently
- emphasis
- rigid
- mutual
- refrain
- exasperated
- ledger
- commence
- exotic
- found
- depressed
- ghetto
- profound
- assimilation
- acute
- absorb
Novel Study: A Raisin in the Sun, Act 2

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- assume
- dominant
- demonstrate
- cliche
- tender
- radiance
- incredulous
- momentum
- exuberant
- emerge
- complete
- claim
- vigorous
- deceptive
- ambitious
- decisive
- classic
- precisely
- amiably
- category
- community
- deplore
- appreciative
- indignation
- jubilance
- forlorn
Novel Study: A Raisin in the Sun, Act 3

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- ominous
- idealist
- illiterate
- esteemed
- proceed
- figure
- difference
- intensity
- precariously
- diminish
Novel Study: Death of a Salesman, Act I

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- transparent
- mercurial
- crestfallen
- contradict
- foundation
- crude
- agitation
- pompous
- approbation
- anemic
- prohibit
- laconic
- aura
- dispel
- principal
- withdraw
- surly
- indignantly
- philander
- remiss
- apply
- feasible
- subdued
- monotonous
Novel Study: Death of a Salesman, Act II

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- attitude
- consume
- perspire
- locate
- recitation
- proposition
- earnest
- salvation
- compose
- aspect
- sympathy
- urgent
- accompany
- absolutely
- theme
- anxious
- contemptuous
- contain
- idyllic
- elegiac
- intensity
- somberly
- summon