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WorksheetsYes, Chef Vocabulary in Context
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 13mins
"I was assigned the most basic of tasks, just above dishwasher, but from my first shift, working side by side with a professional restaurant staff, I felt the camaraderie and effort I knew on the soccer field." (61)
a spirit of friendly good-fellowship
friendship
warm, joking environment
the whole body of persons engaged in a business or profession
"As Leah [Chase] always says, "The hood needs good food, too."
And what happened was that her good food and her good intentions
gave her restaurant a clout she never imagined it would ever have."
a piece of cloth or leather
a blow especially with the hand
pull or influence
a white cloth on a stake or frame used as a target in archery
"Their [his uncle and aunt] shouts and seemingly exasperated murmurs
were the words of two old people who had stood, united, against the harshness
of the cold blue sea for sixty years and made a life together."
the fact of being annoying
to make weary, irritated, or bored
feeling or showing angry irritation
having or showing strong feelings of irritation or annoyance
Define innate as it is used here: "Knowing how to clean a fish was as innate as knowing how to open a door." (18)
"She [his grandmother] had these intuitive moves that we teach in chef school." (24)
readily learned or understood
possessing or given to intuition or insight
natural or untaught knoweldge
a power of perception like but not one of the five senses : a keen intuitive power
"That apartment was my first home in New York, a place where
my Swedish-English patois was the common language." (145)
the characteristic special language of an occupational or social group
uneducated or provincial speech
a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect
of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country
Define penchant as used in this context:
"His exacting standards, withering sarcasm, and penchant for publicly ridiculing
his staff always had, at their base, a loyalty to upholding quality." (109)
"Ashou, at seven, was preternaturally sharp, and when I saw the look on her face when she learned she was staying home, the way rejection hung above her like a cloud, it was all I could do to blink back the tears."
[Context: Chef Marcus is bargaining with his Ethiopian biological father to let Marcus send money for his half-sisters to leave the family farm and go to school.]
existing outside of nature
exceeding what is natural or regular
inexplicable by ordinary means
wise beyond
her years
"That my mother was intelligent rings true because I know she had to be shrewd
to save the lives of myself and my sister, which is what she did,
in the most mysterious and miraculous of ways.
marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen
given to wily and artful ways or dealing
severe, hard
sharp, piercing
Define tactile as it is used here:
[Chef Marcus as a young man was assigned to the fish department]
"I understood the difference between herring and mackerel, but now I was looking at exotic stuff like turbot and sole, learning in a tactile way about the different qualities of each species."
