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Vocabulary Practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The swimming hole was our ___________, a place we felt safe. | haven |
| The camera would love them, no matter what they were wearing or how __________ their hair had become. | disheveled |
| The twins nodded at each other. “This is more than big — this is huge,” they said in _____________. | unison |
| To my surprise, the twins ________________ off the bed. All four of my sisters marched out and down the hall to the kitchen without another word. | flounced |
| We let the conversation die off and pedaled our bikes back to the house in silence. When we got there, the sun was a ________________ orange globe touching the horizon. | luminous |
| By the time the girls burst into my room, _______________ backpacks and old bucket purses busting at the seams, I was all ready to go. | frayed |
| “It’s worse than a lemon,” her twin ____________. Shaking our heads, | elaborated |
| We’d left him sitting by the riverbank, drying under a mulberry tree, the tiny mariposas clinging to his mouth and nostrils as if trying to ________________ him. | resuscitate |
| “It gets cold in the desert,” Delia said. She sat cross-legged on their _______________ dresser, smug as a cat. | dilapidated |
| The roar and chilliness of the dark water awakened my senses, and my heart ____________ in my chest as I came up for air. | constricted |
| “It is a punishment I impose on myself,” La Llorona began. “A ___________ for my part in it. I should have been more careful, made sure they were always safe. | penance |
| Their faces were _________________ in the dark and their white outfits were muted by the lack of sunlight, but I could see that they were little boys running away from something — or someone. | indistinguishable |
| Shrubbery that grew for miles and miles along the riverbank still _____________ the land in shadow. | shrouded |
| Some days, we'd hike the hills beyond El Indio Highway, following the swarm of _____________. | mariposas |
| I ________ the way Mamá would have if she’d been there with us. “Get out! Get out! Get out!” Graspin | shrieked |
| They sprang out of the water like _____ mojarras — two slim, delicate fish flying out of the river. | sleek |
| Disappeared. Like a ghostly __________, she vanished into the surreal light of the fading sunset. | apparition |
| I saw that Mamá was standing at the counter, slicing pie with a heavy knife. Her black hair was twisted up in a ________________ knot and the dark circles under her eyes were more pronounced tonight. | haphazard |
| They both looked at me like they were about to spit in my face, eyes glistening with _____________ and frustration. | wrath |
| Her stubbornness usually led to yelling or bullying. It was ______________. I don’t think I’d seen her cry since she found out Santa Claus wasn’t real. | unnerving |
| “A most powerful _________. It was given to me by my mother on my fifteenth birthday at the altar of Tenochtitlan, when I became a woman. | amulet |
| Papá’s old jeans, one of his dress shirts, and his cowboy boots, dressed the body with the _____________ of a dedicated mortician. | reverence |
| I could tell it used to be a white robe of some kind when it was new, but it was so old it was gray now. On the whole, she looked ____________ and malnourished, close to death. | unkempt |
| The short trees tore at her ______________ white dress, but she didn’t care. | immaculate |
| All was ___________ and cold, and I thought I would drown. What would Mamá think? Did I fail my sisters? | obscurity |
| In the dawning light, it shimmered with the hues of day fighting away the shadows of night, while the _____________ of trees | multitude |
| “Coahuila is a desert, isn’t it? It’s next to Chihuahua, and Chihuahua is a desert,” Velia asked no one in particular. “Think so?” Delia _____________ her eyebrows. I rolled my eyes. “Of course not, calabazas. You’re such knuckleheads | furrowed |
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