Esperanza Rising Vocabulary Chapter 1

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Scythe

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Harvesting tool with a curved blade

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Vaqueros

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Cowboys

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Campesinos

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Field workers

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Reaping

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To gather or cut a harvest

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Premonition

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Feeling that something bad will happen

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Sympathetic

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Pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune

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Capricious

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Sudden changes in mood or behavior

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Forlorn

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Really sad and abandoned

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Beacon

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Signal or light that guides you