Esperanza Rising
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| premonition | feeling that something bad will happen
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| capricious | likely to change suddenly and for no apparent reason
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| propriety | quality of being proper
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| anguish | great suffering as from worry, grief, or pain; agony
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| indignation | anger at something that seems unjust, unfair
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| devious | not in a straight path; roundabout - straying from the right way; not honest
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| renegades | a person who abandons a party, or movement and goes over to the other side; traitor
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| mesmerized | to hypnotize; to spellbound
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| undulating | having a way, form, margin or surface
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| cherubs | any child with a sweet, innocent face; or a chubby baby angel
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| careening | to lean or tip to one side; to lean or roll from side to side while moving fast
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| staccato | made up of abrupt, distinct elements or sounds
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| brooded | to ponder in a troubled way; to keep thinking about something in a distressed or troubled way
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| loomed | to come into sight in a sudden or frightening way
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| foreman | a person in charge of a group of workers
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| accosting | to come close to and speak in a bold or impolite way
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| trellis | frame of crossed stripes, especially of wood on which vines or other climbing plants are grown
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| taunting | to make fun of with scornful words; jeer at; to tease
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| accustomed | customary, usual; regular use - to cause to get used to something
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| atrocious | very cruel, evil, unpleasant, or bad
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| encrusted | to cover with a crust or layer
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| immunized | to make or protect against a disease especially by vaccination
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| susceptible | having feelings that are easily affected; very sensitive
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| bedraggled | looking like something that has been dragged through mud; wet and dirty; untidy; messy
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| slogans | word or phrase used by political party or business, to get attention or advertise a product
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| lug | wooden box used to transport fruit or vegetables
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| picket | a person such as a member of a labor union on strike standing or walking outside a factory, or store to show protest
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| deportation | the act of leaving a country by official order; banish
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| relapse | to fall back into an earlier condition, especially into illness after seeming to get better
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| escort | to go along with or accompany
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| infuriate | to make very angry in rage
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| grandeur | great size, beauty, dignity, etc.
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| tendril | any of the small, curly stems that hold up a climbing plant by coiling around something
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