House On Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheet Template (Page 4 of 8) in pdf

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Chanclas - Born Bad

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.

My feet swell big and heavy like plungers, but I drag them across the linoleum floor . . . .

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Ready and waiting like a new Buick with the keys in the ignition. Ready to take you where?

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She is the color of a bar of naphtha laundry soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of the wash,

the hard little bone, my sister.

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I came home . . . all wet because Tito had pushed me into the open water hydrant . . . .

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Like sticky capsules filled with jelly

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Part II: Determining the Meaning

Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

plungers

the switch that turns on a car

ignition

an upright cylinder for holding water

naphtha

a kind of soap

hydrant

a small, oval shaped, jelly-like container

capsules

rubber suction cups on sticks

Not tested:

Or merengue. a rapid dance

Or tembleque! a dance; a hair ornament

Your abuelito is dead, Papa says early one morning in my room. Está muerto . . . .

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