Grade 7: Unit 2: Vocabulary from Readings 2

This list covers "The Three-Century Woman," "Charles,"Encounter with Martin Luther King Jr., and Dirk the Protector.
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  1. venerable
    profoundly honored
  2. spectacles
    eyeglasses
  3. renounce
    turn away from; give up
  4. raucous
    unpleasantly loud and harsh
  5. insolent
    marked by casual disrespect
  6. incredulously
    in a disbelieving manner
  7. cynical
    believing the worst of human nature and motives
  8. shanty
    a small crude shelter used as a dwelling
  9. fester
    gnaw into; make resentful or angry
  10. redeem
    save from sins
  11. fray
    a noisy fight
  12. punctual
    acting or arriving exactly at the time appointed
  13. conventional
    conforming with accepted standards
  14. forerunner
    something that precedes something or someone
  15. predatory
    living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain
  16. impasse
    a situation in which no progress can be made
  17. decoy
    a person or thing that misleads by drawing attention away
  18. puny
    of inferior size
  19. brindled
    having a gray or brown streak or a patchy coloring
  20. hustle
    sell or obtain by energetic and underhanded activity
  21. cohort
    a company of companions or supporters
Created on Thu May 13 13:26:37 EDT 2021 (updated Mon May 17 17:07:14 EDT 2021)

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