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Jim Thorpe
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| confident | believing in yourself |
| hurdle | 1. a barrier for people or horses to jump over in a race 2. something that stands in the way; an obstacle or difficulty |
| prove | to show that a thing is true |
| rival | 1. person who wants and tries to get the same thing as another 2.wanting the same thing as another |
| boarding school | school with buildings where the pupils live during the school term |
| dormitory | a building with many rooms in which people sleep |
| endurance | power to last and to withstand hard wear |
| manual | done with the hands |
| reservation | land set aside by the government for a special purpose |
| society | the people of any particular time or place |
| inconsolable | not able to be comforted; brokenhearted |
| recruiter | a person who gets new members, who gets people to join or come |