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  1. hefty
    of considerable weight and size
    Our first year in New York we rented a small apartment with a Catholic school nearby, taught by the Sisters of Charity, hefty women in long black gowns and bonnets that made them look peculiar, like dolls in mourning.
  2. bonnet
    a hat tied under the chin
    Our first year in New York we rented a small apartment with a Catholic school nearby, taught by the Sisters of Charity, hefty women in long black gowns and bonnets that made them look peculiar, like dolls in mourning.
  3. mourning
    state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
    Our first year in New York we rented a small apartment with a Catholic school nearby, taught by the Sisters of Charity, hefty women in long black gowns and bonnets that made them look peculiar, like dolls in mourning.
  4. immigrant
    a person who comes to a country in order to settle there
    As the only immigrant in my class, I was put in a special seat in the first row by the window, apart from the other children so that Sister Zoe could tutor me without disturbing them.
  5. enunciate
    speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
    Slowly, she enunciated the new words I was to repeat: laundromat, corn flakes, subway, snow.
  6. holocaust
    an act of mass destruction and loss of life
    Soon I picked up enough English to understand holocaust was in the air.
  7. communist
    a socialist in favor of collectivism in a classless society
    President Kennedy, looking worried too, was on the television at home, explaining we might have to go to war against the Communists.
  8. ominous
    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
    At school, we had air-raid drills: an ominous bell would go off and we’d file into the hall, fall to the floor, cover our heads with our coats, and imagine our hair falling out, the bones in our arms going soft.
  9. rosary
    a series of prayers counted using a string of beads
    At home, Mami and my sisters and I said a rosary for world peace.
  10. radioactive
    exhibiting or caused by emissions in nuclear decay
    I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.
  11. fallout
    radioactive particles that settle after a nuclear explosion
    I heard new vocabulary: nuclear bomb, radioactive fallout, bomb shelter.
  12. warily
    in a manner marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
    I looked out the window warily.
Created on Mon Jul 01 15:08:27 EDT 2019 (updated Mon Jul 01 15:13:40 EDT 2019)

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