Esperanza Rising Las Almendras & Las Ciruelas Vocabulary

familiar with something so that it seems normal or usual

• extravagant

• migrant

• taunting

• accustomed

to wrap (someone, especially a baby) tightly with a blanket

• swaddled

• accustomed

• extravagant

• taunting

a person who goes from one place to another especially to find work

• taunting

• swaddled

• migrant

• extravagant

more than is usual, necessary, or proper

• extravagant

• swaddled

• taunting

• migrant

exceptionally bad or shockingly evil

• contagious

• peculiar

• atrocious

• scorched

something that is burnt or extremely hot

• scorched

• atrocious

• peculiar

• contagious

strange or odd

• scorched

• atrocious

• peculiar

• contagious

capable or being transferred by contact with an infected person

• scorched

• atrocious

• contagious

• peculiar

to say insulting things to someone in order to make that person angry

• migrant

• extravagant

• taunting

• swaddled