Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 2

This list covers "Denée Benton: Broadway Princess" and "Cover Letter to LucasArts."
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  1. role
    an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, film, etc...
    Actress Denée Benton masterfully captured this contradiction in her title role in the Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
  2. display
    make visible or apparent
    From there, all the rising star had to do was display how her incredible talents could enliven the role of Natasha, an impressionable 19th-century aristocrat torn between her love for the man to whom she’s betrothed and another man who woos her while her fiancé is away at war.
  3. narrative
    an account that tells the particulars of an act or event
    “That messaging is so important and to be able to rewrite that narrative for little black girls about what we can and can’t do, means everything to me.”
  4. intensify
    increase in extent or strength
    As a seventh grader, Benton’s Broadway dreams intensified when her parents took her to New York to see the award-winning musical Wicked.
  5. advocate
    a person who pleads for a person, cause, or idea
    He was one of the few black teachers at my school and he really was just an advocate of mine.
  6. quest
    the act of searching for something
    Your quest for the ideal career begins, logically enough, at the Ideal Career Center.
  7. logical
    marked by an orderly and coherent relation of parts
    Your quest for the ideal career begins, logically enough, at the Ideal Career Center.
  8. potential
    the inherent capacity for coming into being
    The titles of the three brochures are as follows: "HAL Computers: We've Got a Number For You," "Yoyodine Defense Technologies: Help Us Reach Our Destructive Potential," and "Lucasfilm, Ltd: Games, Games, Games!"
  9. commute
    a regular journey to and from your place of work
    You drive the short commute to the Lucasfilm building and find it full of friendly people who show you the way to your desk.
  10. fulfill
    meet a want or need
    It is challenging and personally fulfilling to perform.
Created on Fri Nov 13 10:52:45 EST 2020 (updated Fri Nov 20 10:51:12 EST 2020)

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