Esperanza Rising Vocab Chapters 1-4

Land that slopes upward

• Incline

• Grassland

• Prairie

• Shrek

Scythe

• A type of grape

• A tool with a curved blade used for cutting crops

• A certain plant that only grows along the West Coast of the U.S.

• A word used to describe a certain type of strike

An anticipation that something is going to happen (usually bad)

• Plants

• Prophet

• Premonition

• Foreseeing

Serenade

• entertain with a piece of music sung or played in the open air

• a genre of music where there are banjos and country accents

• a type of wood that only grows on Mexican farmlands

• a weapon used in war

Adobe means clay used for building

• True

• False

Condolence

1) An expression of sympathy

or

2) It's used when someone has died

• Definition #1

• Definition #2

• Both

• None of them

How well do you understand this?

• I don't understand this

• I kind of understand

• I know most of this, but I have a couple of questions

• I know this