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

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The Monkey Garden - Mango Says Goodbye Sometimes

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.

The monkey doesn't live there anymore. . . And I was glad because I couldn't listen anymore to his wild

screaming at night, the twangy yakkety-yak of the people who owned him.

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She met a marshmallow salesman at a school bazaar, and married him in another state . . . .

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I say, "and so she trudged up the wooden stairs, her sad brown shoes taking her to the house she never

liked."

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Chapters 1-4

Part II: Determining the Meaning

Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definitions.

twangy

walked in a heavy-footed way; plodded

bazaar

a fair or sale

trudged

a sharp, vibrating sound

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