Collection 1: 'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans

As you read Richard Rodriguez's "'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 1: Of Plymouth Plantation, Coming of Age in the Dawnland, The Tempest, Balboa, 'Blaxicans' and Other Reinvented Americans
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words only definitions & notes
  1. cull
    look for and gather
  2. dialectic
    arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
  3. factor
    anything that contributes causally to a result
  4. predominant
    having superior power or influence
  5. incidence
    the relative frequency of occurrence of something
  6. contrivance
    a small mechanical device or tool
  7. ineffable
    defying expression or description
  8. ascendancy
    the state when one person or group has power over another
  9. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  10. denote
    have as a meaning
  11. envision
    imagine, conceive of, or see in one's mind
  12. archetypal
    of an original pattern on which other things are modeled
  13. circumvent
    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
  14. palette
    range of color characteristic of a painting, artist, etc.
  15. Victorian
    typical of standards or conduct of the nineteenth century
  16. distinguish
    mark as different
  17. commune
    a body of people living together and sharing everything
  18. bombast
    pompous or pretentious talk or writing
  19. Karl Marx
    founder of modern communism
  20. demythologize
    remove the mythical element from (writings)
Created on Sun Jun 29 23:15:41 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 02 09:33:40 EDT 2014)

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