Unit 6: Part 1 Vocabulary

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  1. dissuade
    turn away from by persuasion
    —She was going up north? By herself? A woman alone on the road! “This is not the States.” Her old aunts had tried to dissuade her. “Anything can happen.”
  2. maneuver
    direct the course of or determine the direction of traveling
    Yolanda wanted to turn back, but there was no room to maneuver the car around.
  3. appease
    overcome or allay
    She hurried Jose back to the car, where they found a heap of guavas the other boys had left behind on the shoulder of the road. Enough guavas to appease even the greediest island spirit for life!
  4. machete
    a large knife used as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
    Yolanda’s glance fell on the machetes that hung from their belts.
  5. collusion
    secret agreement
    The men exchanged a look—it seemed to Yolanda of collusion.
  6. docile
    willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed
    The two men stared at her, uncomprehendingly, rendered docile by her gibberish.
  7. homely
    without artificial refinement or elegance
    Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe.
  8. furtive
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
    She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school.
  9. cower
    crouch or curl up
    She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me.
  10. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
    Hakim-a-barber said, “I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style.”
  11. coincide
    happen simultaneously
    The baby came along in late November during a cold spell that just happened to coincide with the peak of the waterfowl season.
  12. ambition
    a cherished desire
    The two kids were very much in love. On top of this they had great ambitions. They were always talking about the things they were going to do and the places they were going to go.
  13. striking
    sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
    Sally was the girl’s sister. She was striking. I don’t know if you’ve seen pictures of her.
  14. fitful
    occurring in spells and often abruptly
    The baby cried fitfully and stopped.
Created on Mon Oct 19 15:49:02 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Oct 23 17:55:53 EDT 2020)

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