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Unit 5 Vocab
| Term | Definition | Part Of Speech | Sentence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deportation | The act of expelling someone from a country. | N | Trump loves deportation because it reminds him of the power he holds. |
| Detention | The act of keeping someone in custody. (ex. A political prisoner.) | N | Juvenile detention is a way to punish kids |
| Fugitive | A person who has escaped or is in hiding to avoid arrest. | N | The fugitive hit the rode at dawn and only stopped walking at midnight. |
| Quarrels | Arguments or Disagreements | N | The couple had quarrels daily but made up by noon. |
| Gestapo | Secret Police in Nazi Germany, Known for being ruthless | N | The Gestapo sought out the couple. |
| Foreboding | fearful apprehension; a feeling that something bad will happen. | N | He had a sense of foreboding about the science quiz |
| Apprehension | anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen. | N | He felt sick with apprehension. |
| Intuition | the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. | N | His intuition guided us all. |
| Mounting | Increasing gradually, building up | Adj | He felt a mounting feeling of dread sensing the Gestapo would find them sooner than later. |
| Rigid | Stiff and unbending | Adj | The statue was rigid almost as if it was carved to instill fear into the subjects' hearts |
| Insistent | demanding that something should happen | Adj. | She was insistent on bringing Helga with her saying that one day Helga would lead the kingdom to glory. |
| Devoted | Showing strong commitment, loyalty, and dedication over a long period of time. | Adj. | She was very devoted to the cause spending 100 percent of her time on it. |
| Preserving | Protecting something important so it is not lost, damaged, or forgotten. | V | We preserved the scrolls knowing it would be of great importance later. |
| Resembled | Looked very similar to someone else. | V | He resembled someone I knew leading to a very awkward apology about the way I spoke to him. |
| Relic | A treasured object kept because it has strong emotional or historical importance. | N | The old sword was a relic, reminding people of the legacy he left behind. |
| Humanity | Kindness, compassion, and belief in the goodness of people. | N | The first step of the extermination of humans was to hake away their humanity. |
| Legacy | What a person leaves behind that continues to influence others after their death. | N | His legacy continues today providing education for kids who can't afford it. |
| Analyze | to look closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole. | V | She said we needed to analyze the text and search for words we didn't know. |
| Background Information | the (new) information that helps a reader better contextualize and understand a specific text. | N | The background information helped him understand The throne of glass. |
| Context | 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. | N | Without the context of the text he got lost in its complicated words. |
| -Ent | state of being | sufficient | state of being enough |
| -Tion | act of | deportation | act of deporting |
| Co- | Together | Cooperate | To work together |
| -Mit- | To release /Send | Emit | To send out |
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