Strewn

The Word: Strewn
Parts of speech: Vb.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Funny in Farsi Page. 113
To my delight, I found that the lawn had been strewn with miniature Iranian flags.
Context Clues: Example, I looked at the next sentence and the word thirty was an example that there were a lot of flags.
Definition: to spread by scattering.
Your Original Sentence: When you play fifty-two card pick up, the cards are strewn across the floor.

Backdrop

The Word: Backdrop
Parts of speech: N.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Funny in Farsi Page 140.
Against this backdrop of teenage angst, there would have to be a symbol, a representation of the confidence that comes with eventual intellectual and spiritual growth.
Context Clues: Your logic, creating a comparison between her life and a movie.
Definition: A painted cloth hung across the rear of a stage.
Your Original Sentence: The backdrop hung beautifully in the play I saw recently White Christmas.

Angst

The Word: Angst
Parts of speech: N.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Funny in Farsi Page 140.
Against this backdrop of teenage angst, there would have to be a symbol, a representation of the confidence that comes with eventual intellectual and spiritual growth.
Context Clues: Your logic, the best clue to being seventeen isn’t always fun.
Definition: A feeling or anxiety, apprehension, or insecurity.
Your Original Sentence: The feeling I have with panic attacks is called angst.

Manifestation

The Word: manifestation
Parts of speech: N.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text Connect Page 152.
Vision is the best manifestation of creative imagination and the primary motivation of human action.
Context Clues: I used examples to help me figure out the meaning of the word “manifestation”. “Vision is the best display for the imagination”.
Definition: Display, Demonstration.
Your Original Sentence: I manifest my emotions like no one else in my family.

Dote

The Word: dote
Parts of speech: Vb.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Funny in Farsi Page 103.
Now whenever we visit my relatives, all who dote on my husband, I realize that he didn’t marry me despite my tribe, he married me because of them.
Context Clues: I used synonyms to help me figure out the meaning of the word “dote”. The synonym that I used to replace the word dote is “love”.
Definition: To show excessive love or fondness.
Your Original Sentence: I dote on my boyfriend.

Capacity

The Word: Capacity
Parts of speech: N.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text Connect Page 152.
As he found within himself the capacity to rise above his humiliating circumstances, he became an observer as well as a participant in the experience.
Context Clues: I used synonyms to help me figure out the meaning of the word “capacity”. The synonym that I used to replace the word capacity was “capability”.
Definition: Someone’s ability to do something.
Your Original Sentence: I had the capacity to climb up the mountain with no food or water.

Vacillate

The Word: Vacillate
Parts of speech: Vb.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text Connect Page 153.
We vacillate and fluctuate.
Context Clues: The following sentence, “changes from day to day,” drew me to the conclusion of my logic. Where the word vacillate means: to go back and forth.
Definition: move from side to side.
Your Original Sentence: The rough seas caused us to vacillate in the boat.

Impelling

The Word: Impelling
Parts of speech: Vb.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text Connect Page 152.
- the impelling conviction of those who were to survive that they had a mission to perform, some important work left to do.
Context Clues: I used the prior sentence because it defined the term. I have heard of the word compelling but not of the word impelling.
Definition: drive, force, or urge.
Your Original Sentence: Our professor was so impelling that we wanted to finish our assignments.

Constructive

The Word: Constructive
Parts of speech: Adj.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text Connect Page 153.
Some may seem constructive: “You’re so talented!”
Context Clues: I used my logic to help me figure out the meaning of the word “constructive”. Also, there are examples in the passage that explain what the word means: “I always said you should be a doctor!” Also I have heard this word before being used as “constructive criticism”.
Definition: Helpful; Positive.
Your Original Sentence: My dad’s constructive advice was a boost to my self esteem.

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The Word: Bucolic
Parts of speech: Adj.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Funny in Farsi pg 31.
Or we’d try to be more bucolic mentioning being south of the beautiful Caspian Sea, “Where the famous caviar comes from”.
Context Clues: Example (where the Caspian comes from).
Definition: rural
Your Original Sentence: The cowboy’s chaps were very bucolic.

The Word: Disseminated
Parts of speech: Verb
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text Connect Page. 41
Third, popular culture is increasingly disseminated by the mass media…
Context Clues: In the sentence there were not any examples, Antonyms, or synonyms. Using my logic that Disseminated is a word the media spreads information television, film, and radio too.
Definition: scatter about, spread.
Your Original Sentence: The television emergency broadcast system disseminated at 2 p.m. this afternoon.

The Word: Ubiquitious
Parts of speech: Adj.
The Source Sentence and (page Number): Text-Connect pg 42.
The Media is also ubiquitous- present in airports, elevators, classrooms, bars and restaurants, and hospital waiting rooms.
Context Clues: Synonym because it’s present everywhere.
Definition: present everywhere or in several places simultaneously.
Your Original Sentence: I was ubiquitous at all my little brothers’ activities with school.

Regaled

Vocabulary Word Submission Structure
The Word: Regaled
Parts of speech: Verb
The Source Sentence and (page Number):
When I first met him, he regaled me with stories of exotic place he had visited… (Page 57)
Context Clues: In the sentence there were not any examples, Antonyms, or synonyms.Using my logic that Regaled is a positive word and the words “exotic” and “stories” suggest that it must be something foreign and entertaining.
Definition:To give pleasure and amusement to.
Your Original Sentence: The Children regaled when the magician pulled a rabbit out of his hat.

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