Module 1: "Teaching Nepalis to Read, Plant, and Vote" and "From Kosovo to the United States"

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  1. determined
    strongly motivated to succeed
    Finally, he was so determined to get an education that he ran away to Kathmandu, walking for three entire days.
  2. malaria
    a disease caused by parasites transmitted by mosquito bite
    Bishnu’s wives had 25 children between them, though ten died from diseases such as smallpox and measles and malaria (a disease of tropical countries).
  3. inspire
    serve as the inciting cause of
    This realization inspired Dinesh to follow in his father’s footsteps as a champion of education.
  4. tribal
    relating to or characteristic of a clan or social group
    Dinesh describes their first project: “We were working with a very poor tribal group that lived in caves on the sides of steep hills. When we first visited, they ran into the forest because they were scared of strangers. They had nothing. I couldn’t believe our brothers and sisters were living in this condition.”
  5. brush
    a dense growth of bushes
    Goats could scale the steep hillsides and eat the brush that grew there.
  6. wade
    walk through relatively shallow water
    To get to the village, she had to wade a river seven times.
  7. ethnic
    distinctive of the ways of living of a group of people
    • Ethnic Albanians are the largest group of people in Kosovo.
  8. culture
    the attitudes characteristic of a particular social group
    The word ethnic means “of similar race and culture.”
  9. treaty
    a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
    • NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
  10. sponsor
    someone who supports or champions something
    American soldiers brought us to Fort Dix, where our Christian sponsors were waiting.
Created on Thu Oct 01 13:19:25 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Oct 01 18:09:38 EDT 2020)

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