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"Money"

Before becoming a full-time literary and music critic, poet, and radio commentator, Dana Gioia spent 15 years as a businessman focused on money.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 11 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: A Cause Greater Than Self, The New Colossus, The Statue of Liberty Address, poems about America, America, America and I, What Is an American, Growing Up Asian in America, Let America Be America Again, The Four Freedoms, The Bill of Rights, What Is Freedom, Is the American Dream Still Possible, The Declaration of Independence, poems about immigrants, Money, A Raisin in the Sun, Who Burns, Roberto Acuna, Barack Obama, The Right to Fail
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  1. stash
    a secret store of valuables or money
    Money, the long green,
    cash, stash, rhino, jack
    or just plain dough.
  2. fork over
    to surrender someone or something to another
    Chock it up, fork it over,
    shell it out.
  3. greenback
    a piece of paper money; a U.S. dollar
    Greenbacks, double eagles,
    megabucks and Ginnie Maes.
  4. double eagle
    a former gold coin in the United States worth 20 dollars
    Greenbacks, double eagles,
    megabucks and Ginnie Maes.
  5. grease
    lubricate with grease
    It greases the palm
  6. feather
    cover or fit with feathers
    feathers a nest
  7. breed
    call forth
    Money breeds money.
  8. interest
    a fixed charge for borrowing money
    Gathering interest
  9. compound
    calculate interest on both principal and accrued interest
    compounding daily
  10. circulation
    the spread or transmission of something
    Always in circulation.
Created on Sat Nov 08 20:57:21 EST 2014 (updated Sun Nov 09 18:06:50 EST 2014)

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