Collection 6: The Briefcase

As you read Rebecca Makkai's "The Briefcase," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 10's Collection 6: Letter from Birmingham Jail, Revolution 2.0, Letter to Viceroy, Lord Irwin, The Briefcase, Cloudy Day
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  1. flail
    thrash about
  2. inversion
    turning upside down; setting on end
  3. equidistant
    exactly as far from one point as from another
  4. transpire
    come about, happen, or occur
  5. abattoir
    a building where animals are butchered
  6. Kabul
    the capital and largest city of Afghanistan
  7. Dresden
    a city in southeastern Germany on the Elbe River
  8. Johannesburg
    city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria
  9. flagrant
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
  10. logical
    marked by an orderly and coherent relation of parts
  11. gape
    be wide open
  12. confident
    persuaded of; very sure
  13. havoc
    violent and needless disturbance
  14. convince
    make realize the truth or validity of something
  15. denounce
    speak out against
Created on Fri Jul 18 15:40:26 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:15:01 EDT 2014)

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