Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 1

This list covers Mother Jones: Fierce Fighter for Workers’ Rights, "Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward," and Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy.
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  1. treacherous
    dangerously unstable and unpredictable
    Barefooted little girls and boys reached their tiny hands into the treacherous machinery to repair snapped threads or crawled underneath the machinery to oil it.
  2. publicity
    a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea
    “Well, I’ve got stock in these little children,” she said, “and I’ll arrange a little publicity.”
  3. mutilated
    having a part of the body crippled or disabled
    She held one boy’s arm up high so the crowd could see his mutilated hand.
  4. prosperity
    the condition of having good fortune
    “Prosperity Is Here, Where is Ours?”
  5. dormitory
    a large sleeping room containing several beds
    The Clevelands were away, and the caretaker let Mother Jones use the big, cool barn for a dormitory.
  6. keeper
    someone in charge of other people
    Say to them,
    say to the down- keepers,
    the sun-slappers,
    the self-soilers,
    the harmony-hushers,
    “even if you are not ready for day
    it cannot always be night.”
  7. slapper
    a hitter who slaps with an open hand
    Say to them,
    say to the down-keepers,
    the sun- slappers,
    the self-soilers,
    the harmony-hushers,
    “even if you are not ready for day
    it cannot always be night.”
  8. soil
    make filthy or dirty
    Say to them,
    say to the down-keepers,
    the sun-slappers,
    the self-soilers,
    the harmony-hushers,
    “even if you are not ready for day
    it cannot always be night.”
  9. harmony
    congruity of parts with one another and with the whole
    Say to them,
    say to the down-keepers,
    the sun-slappers,
    the self-soilers,
    the harmony-hushers,
    “even if you are not ready for day
    it cannot always be night.”
  10. hush
    cause to be quiet or not talk
    Say to them,
    say to the down- keepers,
    the sun-slappers,
    the self-soilers,
    the harmony- hushers,
    “even if you are not ready for day
    it cannot always be night.”
  11. ignite
    cause to start burning
    Flames shot up, igniting the line of hanging paper patterns.
  12. standpipe
    a vertical pipe
    No water came. The hose had not been connected to the standpipe.
  13. suffocate
    struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
    Heat can easily damage their machinery, leaving trapped passengers dangling in space, to burn or suffocate.
  14. inferno
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
    Reaching the eighth floor, they crawled into the inferno on their bellies, under the rising smoke, with their hose.
  15. aerial
    existing, living, growing, or operating in the air
    The aerial ladders failed, too, reaching only to the sixth floor.
Created on Thu Apr 08 15:15:52 EDT 2021 (updated Tue Apr 13 16:37:07 EDT 2021)

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