House On Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheet Template printable pdf download

House On Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheet Template

VOCABULARY WORKSHEETS - House on Mango Street

The House on Mango Street - Laughter

Part I: Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues

Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you can

find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on

the lines provided.

For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa.

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And since she comes right after me, she is my responsibility.

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Until then I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor.

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Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That's the way he did it.

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I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window.

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I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees.

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Cathy's father will have to fly to France one day and find her great great distant grand cousin on her father's side

and inherit the family house.

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I don't tell them about Nenny just yet. It's too complicated.

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Part II: Determining the Meaning

Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

temporary

duty

responsibility

to receive from one who has gone before

anchor

to give a first or Christian name to

chandelier

heavy object used to keep a boat in place

inherit

not easy to understand

baptize

for a limited time

distant

far apart in relationship

complicated

a light fixture that hangs from a ceiling

House On Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheet Template