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Unit 5 vocab

TermDefinition
deportation (n)The act of expelling someone from a country. Ex: The family realized they were in danger of deportation and fell into anxiety.
detention (n) The act of keeping someone in custody. (ex. A political prisoner.) Ex: The teenager was put into a juvenile detention center after commiting a crime.
fugitive (n) A person who has escaped or is in hiding to avoid arrest. Ex: One of the teenagers that committed a crime ran from the cops and became a fugitive.
quarrels (n) Arguments; disagreements. Ex: The two friends had a frenzy of quarrels.
gestapo (n) Secret police force of Nazi Germany, known for its brutal brutality. Ex: The child was harmed by the Gestapo after stealing a piece of bread.
foreboding (n) Budden feeling that something bad is going to happen. Ex: He felt a sense of foreboding after finding a banned relic in his attic.
apprehension (n) Fearful feeling about what will happen next. Ex: After finding a banned relic in his attic, he heard a noise, filled with apprehension of what's to come.
intuition (n) Ability to see the truth of something immediately without reasoning. Ex: Intuition caused him to dial 9-1-1 immediately.
mounting (adj) Increasing gradually; building. Ex: While waiting for the cops arrival, he felt a mounting sense of fear.
rigid (adj) Stiff and unbending. Ex: He felt a rigid object scrape past his right ear, while cackles from an unknown entity echoed through the room.
insistent (adj) Demanding that something should happen. Ex: He ran from the room, yet the unknown entity's voice stayed right behind him, insistent that he give the relic to it.
devoted (adj) Showing strong commitment, loyalty, and dedication over a long period of time. Ex: The cops finally showed up at the man's house, only to find it empty.
preserving (v) Protecting something important so it is not lost, damaged, or forgotten. Ex: Preserving the relic was now a government priority because it was said it could give the wearer a punch more powerful than nuclear bombs.
resembled (v) Looked very similar to someone else. Ex: A government agent thought he found the relic was just a hoax that resembled the real one.
humanity (n) Kindness, compassion, and belief in the goodness of people. Ex: The entity that used the relic to destroy the whole Middle east lacked a sense of humanity.
legacy (n) What a person leaves behind that continues to influence others after their death. Ex: The entity was finally captured and forced to pass away, leaving a legacy of fear.
analyze (v) to look closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole. Ex: Researchers analyzed the relic for years, unable to understand how it worked.
background information (n) the (new) information that helps a reader better contextualize and understand a specific text. Ex: The background information of the relic suggested it was from otherworldly dimensions and worlds.
context (n)encompasses a text, its speakers, its audience, its purposes, and the circumstances that surround the text, including the time period, and major historical, cultural, or literary events may impact the context Ex: Using context, they found it was spell.
Latin suffix -ent (state of being; quality) (adj) Word: Different. Def: Partly or totally unlike in nature, form, or quality.
Latin suffix -tion (act of) (n) Word: Contraption. Def: a device or machine that looks awkward or old-fashioned, especially one that you do not know how to use.
Latin prefix co- (together) (n) Word: Coauthor. Def: one or more people who write a book, article, report, etc. together.
Latin root -mit- (to release; to send) (v) Word: Admit. Def: to agree that something is true.
Relic (n) A treasured object kept because it has strong emotional or historical importance. Ex: The relic was never found again, as if it was never there.
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