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Mango Street Vocabulary Worksheets Page 5

Elenita, Cards, Palm, Water - No Speak English

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.

Golden goblets, sad-looking women dressed in old-fashioned dresses, and roses that cry.

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Here a pillar of bees and this a mattress of luxury.

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Here a pillar of bees and this a mattress of luxury.

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Nobody but an intern working all alone.

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And maybe if the surgeon would've come, maybe if he hadn't lost so much blood, if the surgeon had only

come, they would know who to notify and where.

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They never knew about the two-room flats and sleeping rooms he rented . . .

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. . . the weekly money orders sent home, the currency exchanged.

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Their strength is their secret. They send ferocious roots beneath the ground.

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¡Ay! Mamacita, who does not belong, every once in a while lets out a cry, hysterical, high, as if he had torn the

only skinny thread that kept her alive, the only road out to that country.

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