American Lit Vocab Week 4

Indenture

• agreement to be an apprentice or laborer

• contract for work

• false teeth

• putting a space at the beginning of a paragraph

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

reconnaissance

• master spy

• type of aircraft

• secret mission to gather intel

• time period of great technology and invention

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

reservations

• a place to hold water

• a doubt or feeling that you don't agree

• to reserve something

• arrangement for a room or place

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

marginalize

• set to the back

• related to butter or margarine

• put in the margins of paper

• treat a person as insignificant

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

inexorably

• an adverb

• impossible to prevent or stop

• out of focus

• in the exorable

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

harbor

• shelter or hide

• a place for ships

• carry on

• related to an arbor of trees

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Institution

• a place to live

• put in place

• paying money for college

• society founded for a particular purpose

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

counsel

• give advice

• group of people

• keeping track of ideas

• make an order

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

allege

• give advice

• claim or assert that someone has done something wrong

• agree with

• make a connection

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

indicted

• control

• put in jail

• to charge with a crime

• a fragment or portion of something

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4