Esperanza Rising Ch. 8 - 9 Vocabulary

deep ditches filled with water

• moats

• migrant

• shabby

• extravagant

a temporary substitute for something else

• makeshift

• moats

• strike

• atrocious

teasing

• taunting

• cooing

• seeped

• encrusted

used to

• accustomed

• seeped

• encrusted

• swaddled

wrapped up

• swaddled

• encrusted

• scorched

• preoccupied

early vowel-like sounds that babies produce

• cooing

• regimented

• accustomed

• swaddled

nonviolent refusal to continue to work until a problem is resolved

• strike

• migrant

• peculiar

• contagious

a worker who moves from place to place to do seasonal work

• migrant

• makeshift

• moat

• atrocious

showing signs of wear and tear

• shabby

• extravagant

• drowsy

• eerie

excessive

• extravagant

• shabby

• eerie

• contagious