Vocabulary for Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, etc.
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Vocabulary Word |
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Meaning |
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Prologue |
conflates |
xii |
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boisterous |
xii |
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asylum |
xii |
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Unmoored
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xiii |
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Part I: Lying |
archipelago |
4 |
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Ch. 1 Gamblers |
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Ch. 2 The Wrong Country |
polyphonic |
7 |
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honorifics
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9 |
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emanated |
10
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Ch. 3 Crittenden Middle School |
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Ch. 4 Not Black, Not White |
microcosm |
17 |
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plurality
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17 |
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perplexing
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18 |
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jeered
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18 |
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binary
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18 |
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internalizing
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20 |
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tangible
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20 |
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Ch. 5 Filipinos |
singularity |
21 |
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eccentricity |
21 |
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malleability |
21 |
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antimiscegenation |
23
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colorism |
23 |
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mestizo |
23 |
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barangay |
24 |
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crystalline |
24 |
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apo |
24 |
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mired |
24 |
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remittances |
25 |
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repatriate |
26 |
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byzantine |
28 |
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CH.6 Mexican José and Filipino Jose |
bracero |
30 |
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Ch. 7 Fake |
Furrowing
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32 |
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Muddling
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32 |
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Exuded
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32 |
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Faustian
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34 |
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PART II: Passing Ch. 1 Playing a Role |
extemporaneous |
47 |
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appropriating
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49 |
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Syncopated
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51 |
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Dissonant
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52 |
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Discordant
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52 |
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Ch.2 Mountain View High School |
antithesis |
58 |
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unencumbered |
58
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myopia |
58
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chuzpah |
58
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Omnipresent |
59
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benevolent |
61
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Ch. 3 An Adopted family |
fretting |
63 |
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taciturn |
66
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Ch. 4 Breaking the Law |
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Ch. 5 The Master Narrative
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circumvent |
73 |
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Prism
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73 |
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Ubiquitous
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76 |
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marginalized |
78
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Ch. 6 Ambition |
perplex |
82 |
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Ch. 7 White People |
condescend |
87 |
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Ch. 8 The Washington Post |
litany |
89 |
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compartmentalize |
91
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Ch. 9 Strangers |
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Ch. 10 Bylines |
Reconciled
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97 |
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Scoffed
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100 |
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Irked
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101 |
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Ch. 11 Campaign 2008 |
Ricocheted
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103 |
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Procuring
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104 |
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