Esperanza Rising Ch. 9-10 Vocabulary Flashcards

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atrocious

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awful and horrible

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preoccupied

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busy and distracted

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sympathetic

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supportive

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paced

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walked back and forth

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nimble

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quick and skillful in movement, agile; clever

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listless

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lacking energy and enthusiasm

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bereft

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deprived of; made unhappy through a loss

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yearning

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a feeling of wanting something very badly

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foreshadowing

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the use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

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dynamic character

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A character who grows, learns, or changes as a result of the story's action