Scholarship Jacket Vocabulary

Someone who takes direct action to achieve a political goal

• activist

• context

• action

• motivation

the conditions under which a literary work occurs

• motivations

• context

• fend

• main idea

the reasons behind a character's actions and feelings

• theme

• context

• motivations

• absentminded

what the passage is mostly about

• context

• motivations

• muster

• main idea

to ward off or defend

• muster

• fend

• dismay

• coincidence

lost in thought; forgetful

• dismay

• gather

• absentminded

• activist

gather or bring together

• muster

• dismay

• motivations

• fend

two or more things occurring at the same time by chance

• activist

• dismay

• caption

• coincidence

to destroy courage or resolution; to cause to lose enthusiasm, to disillusion

• withdrawn

• dismay

• deposition

• context

drawn back or removed from easy approach; socially detached; unresponsive; introverted

• main idea

• withdrawn

• muster

• coincidence