Born a Crime, Chapter 1 Vocab Pre-Assessment

Apartheid is:

• discrimination of a religion.

• a social policy of racial segregation.

• the deliberate extermination of a national, racial, or cultural group.

• unanimous dislike of a social class.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Encompass means to:

• cover

• alleviate

• abridge

• actuate

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Sprawling means:

• stealthy

• slippery

• expansive

• expensive

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Jockey means to:

• subscribe

• wander

• compete

• remember

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Accrue means to:

• injure badly by beating

• come into the possession of

• make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally disassociated

• overcome, as with emotions of perceptual stimuli

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Which of the following is an example of someone haranguing another person?

• an employee asking questions of a potential employer

• a pickpocket stealing someone's wallet

• a boy entertaining his friends with a joke

• a father scolding his child

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Crony means:

• leader

• pal

• thief

• jailer

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Promiscuous means:

• inestimable

• rudimentary

• unchaste

• edible

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Animosity means:

• feelings of great warmth and intensity

• the absence of mental stress or anxiety

• a sudden, numbing dread

• a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Which of the following is an example of futility?

• a caterpillar trying to become a moth

• a tadpole trying to become a frog

• a cat trying to fly after a bird

• a deer trying to graze on leaves