Vocabulary: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"

Acquire means:

• To gain or earn

• To give away

• To argue

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If something is functional, it is...

• difficult to understand

• broken beyond repair

• in working order

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

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The feeling of wanting what someone else has is ________.

• schadenfreude

• envy

• fury

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

If you eventually achieve a goal, you will do it...

• over time

• immediately

• with no enthusiasm

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

If something is inevitable, it is:

• rare

• expected to happen

• surprising

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Written messages to and from other people is known as:

• correlation

• correspondence

• coronation

• confidence

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CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

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The presidential debate grew heated when the candidates addressed the issue of public education.

Based on the sentence above, what do you think debate means?

• The feeling of wanting what someone else has

• A contest in which two sides argue the pros and cons of an issue

• The state of being totally alone

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What is emphasis?

• A contest in which two sides argue the pros and cons of an issue

• Written messages to and from other people

• The state of being totally alone

• The weight, value, or importance placed on something

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

If someone is in isolation, he or she is...

• Completely alone

• Lost in a crowd

• Mingling at a party

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

It is hard to adjust to life in a pandemic, but it is starting to feel normal.

Based on the context clues in this sentence, what do you think adjust means?

• To get used to something

• To resist change

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4