Unit 6: Selection Vocabulary 3

This list covers Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery, Brave, I Never Had It Made, and Touching Spirit Bear.
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  1. timid
    showing fear and lack of courage
    She had come a long way since her days as an obedient society matron, and, before then, a timid child who was “always afraid of something.”
  2. poise
    great coolness and composure under strain
    Photographs had not prepared them for her warmth and dignity and poise.
  3. vibrant
    vigorous and animated
    An unusually tall woman, she moved with the grace of an athlete, and when she walked into a room, the air seemed charged with her vibrancy.
  4. influential
    having or exercising power
    For thirty years from the time she entered the White House until her death in 1962, Eleanor Roosevelt was the most famous and at times the most influential woman in the world.
  5. self-importance
    an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
    And yet those who knew her best were most impressed by her simplicity, by her total lack of self-importance.
  6. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
    People are oblivious...but so many dangers lurk!!
  7. lurk
    be about
    People are oblivious...but so many dangers lurk!!
  8. apocalypse
    a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the powers of evil
    If it's a zombie apocalypse?
  9. publish
    put into print
    ...I want to impress them so badly...get them to publish my article about sunspots...
  10. participate
    be involved in
    It would be the first time that a black man would be allowed to participate in a world series.
  11. bigoted
    blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion
    It hadn't been that easy to fight the resentment expressed by players on other teams, by the team owners, or by bigoted fans...
  12. hostile
    characterized by enmity or ill will
    They supported me morally: they came to sit in a hostile audience in unprecedented numbers to make the turnstiles hum as they never had before at ballparks all over the nation.
  13. coincide
    go with; fall together
    Money is America's God, and business people can dig black power if it coincides with green power, so these fans were important to the success of Mr. Rickey's "Noble Experiment."
  14. bond
    a connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest
    A bond developed between us that lasted long after I had left the game. In a way I feel I was the son he had lost and he was the father I had lost.
  15. inspiration
    the act of arousing to a particular emotion or action
    The inspiration of their innocence is amazing.
  16. sparse
    not dense or plentiful
    Several weeks earlier, Edwin, the Tlingit elder from Drake, had built a sparse one-room wood shelter for Cole on the island.
  17. withdraw
    take back what one has said
    “You can withdraw your guilty plea and go through standard justice any time you want,” Garvey said.
  18. reluctantly
    with a certain degree of unwillingness
    Cole didn’t trust anyone, but what choice did he have? “Okay,” he answered reluctantly.
  19. shroud
    cover as if with a burial garment
    The distant green-black forests were shrouded in gray mist.
  20. mosey
    walk leisurely
    Cole moseyed along slowly, not catching up to Edwin until they reached the trees.
Created on Fri Nov 06 16:02:15 EST 2020 (updated Wed Nov 11 14:59:00 EST 2020)

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