Vocabulary - Africa Rising

staggering

• light headed

• Very large, shocking, or surprising

• tiny or very small

• courted

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

encompass

• find a direction

• item used to find directions

• pass by another person

• surround or hold within

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

intractable

• not easily relieved or cured

• can be taken out

• able to track someone

• find an lost animal

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

courted

• played basketball

• ran around a track

• to try to please because you want them to join you

• to make someone do something they don't want to do

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

remittances

• giving up

• taking away

• the sending of money to someone who lives abroad

• joining a golf team

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

diaspora

• dynamic

• colorful

• happy to be alive

• people who have been spread or dispersed from their homeland

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

invigorate

• to fill with life and energy

• to throw water on

• to bring down to a lower level

• to make warm

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

chronic

• sick

• persisting for a long time or reccurring

• playing football

• feeling unhappy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

industrialized

• a rural area

• a store full of candy

• busy

• a country or economy that has many businesses and factories involved in producing goods

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

tycoon

• a wealthy and powerful person in a particular business or industry

• sewing material together

• a very poor person in a very poor country

• another word for teacher

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E