Unit 5: Novel Study: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Part III

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  1. tremor
    an involuntary vibration, as if from illness or fear
  2. swoon
    a spontaneous loss of consciousness
  3. obliging
    showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
  4. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  5. relent
    give in, as to influence or pressure
  6. periodic
    happening or recurring at regular intervals
  7. minister
    attend to the wants and needs of others
  8. intrusive
    tending to enter uninvited
  9. unmitigated
    not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity
  10. presume
    take to be the case or to be true
  11. implement
    a piece of equipment or a tool used for a specific purpose
  12. protocol
    code of correct conduct
  13. inane
    devoid of intelligence
  14. litany
    a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
  15. injunction
    a formal command or admonition
  16. hiatus
    an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
  17. spectral
    resembling or characteristic of a phantom
Created on Wed Dec 02 16:23:51 EST 2020 (updated Wed Dec 09 11:28:11 EST 2020)

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