Unit 4: Selection Vocabulary 1

This list covers "Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888," "Hitting big league fastball 'clearly impossible,'" and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.
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  1. precede
    come before
    But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also Jimmy Blake,
    And the former was a hoodoo, while the latter was a cake
  2. grim
    filled with melancholy and despondency
    So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
    For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.
  3. melancholy
    a feeling of thoughtful sadness
    So upon that stricken multitude grim melancholy sat,
    For there seemed but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.
  4. visage
    the human face
    With a smile of Christian charity great Casey's visage shone
  5. tumult
    a state of commotion and noise and confusion
    He stilled the rising tumult; he bade the game go on
  6. precisely
    in a sharply exact manner
    To make contact, the bat must meet the ball within an eighth of an inch of dead center and at precisely the right millisecond as the 3-inch spinning sphere whizzes by.
  7. process
    perform mathematical and logical operations on
    It takes 75 more milliseconds for the brain to process the information, and gauge the speed and location of the pitch.
  8. foul
    not hit in fair territory, in baseball
    "If the swing by a right-hand batter is seven milliseconds too late, the squarely hit ball will sail foul past first base," he said. "If the swing is early, the ball will be foul on the third base side."
  9. release
    let go as from one's grip
    "The batter might as well just close his eyes and swing after he sees the ball released," Adair said.
  10. hostile
    not belonging to the forces of a country or an ally
    Imagine that hostile forces have invaded your town, and defeat seems certain.
  11. generate
    produce, as energy
    Just like with the sun, windmills could also be used to generate power.
  12. dynamo
    a coil that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet
    The wind would spin the blades of the windmill, rotate the magnets in a dynamo, and create electricity. Attach a wire to the dynamo and you could power anything, especially a bulb.
  13. kerosene
    a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel
    No more kerosene lamps that burned our eyes and sent us gasping for breath.
  14. irrigation
    the act of supplying dry land with water by artificial means
    But most important, a windmill could also rotate a pump for water and irrigation.
  15. maize
    corn
    While the rest of Malawi went hungry during December and January, we’d be hauling in our second crop of maize.
Created on Tue Nov 10 12:46:15 EST 2020 (updated Tue Nov 17 12:02:11 EST 2020)

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