House On Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheet Template (Page 2 of 8) in pdf

Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheets Page 2

Gil's Furniture Bought & Sold - There Was an Old Woman . . .

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.

Everything is on top of everything so the whole store has skinny aisles to walk through.

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Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the

teeth of a metal comb.

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Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the

teeth of a metal comb.

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It is wooden. Inside the floors slant. Some rooms uphill. Some down.

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This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest.

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The windows didn't roll up like in ordinary cars. Instead there was a button that did it for you automatically.

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She is the one who told us . . . if you count the white flecks on your fingernails you can know how many boys

are thinking of you and lots of other things I can't remember now.

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. . . and didn't even stop Refugia from getting her head stuck between two slats in the back gate and nobody

looked up . . .

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Part II: Determining the Meaning

Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

aisles

done every year

marimbas

sloped; made diagonal

plucked

a wooden, xylophone-like instrument

slant

tiny spots

annual

done by machine

automatically

passageways in a store or theater

flecks

narrow strips of wood or metal

slats

removed with the fingers

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