Unit 7: Cluster 1

Edge: Level B, Volume 2, Unit 7, Cluster 1.

Here are the links to the other clusters within Unit 7: "A Raisin in the Sun", "My Father is a Simple Man", and "My Mother Pieced Quilts", "Pass It On", "If There Be Pain", and "Sonnet 30", "I Hear America Singing", "I, Too", "Where Is My Country?", "Legal Alien", and "Human Family"
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  1. stir
    arouse the feelings or emotions of
  2. invest
    lay out money or resources in an enterprise
  3. successful
    having succeeded or being marked by a favorable outcome
  4. frustrated
    disappointingly unsuccessful
  5. dissect
    cut open or cut apart
  6. temper
    a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger
  7. fuss
    worry unnecessarily or excessively
  8. plead
    appeal or request earnestly
  9. tense
    in or of a state of physical or nervous strain
  10. puzzled
    filled with bewilderment
  11. panic
    be overcome by a sudden fear
  12. collapse
    fall apart
  13. loyalty
    the quality of being steadfast in allegiance or duty
  14. integrity
    an undivided or unbroken completeness with nothing wanting
  15. sharecropper
    a tenant farmer who owes a portion of each harvest for rent
  16. bond
    a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
  17. scholar
    a learned person
  18. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
  19. provider
    someone who supplies the means for subsistence
  20. pretense
    the act of giving a false appearance
  21. fanfare
    a gaudy outward display
  22. oblong
    having an elongated form with approximately parallel sides
  23. frayed
    worn away or tattered along the edges
  24. testimony
    a solemn statement made under oath
Created on Wed Jul 13 14:44:49 EDT 2016 (updated Wed Aug 03 11:51:46 EDT 2016)

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