EWRT 1A/LART 250
Vocabulary for Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
Parts of Speech: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, etc.
| Vocabulary Word | Page # | Part of Speech | Meaning |
Prologue | conflates | xii |
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| boisterous | xii |
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| asylum | xii |
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| Unmoored
| xiii |
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Part I: Lying | archipelago | 4 |
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Ch. 1 Gamblers |
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Ch. 2 The Wrong Country | polyphonic | 7 |
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| honorifics
| 9 |
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| emanated | 10
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Ch. 3 Crittenden Middle School |
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Ch. 4 Not Black, Not White | microcosm | 17 |
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| plurality
| 17 |
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| perplexing
| 18 |
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| jeered
| 18 |
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| binary
| 18 |
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| internalizing
| 20 |
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| tangible
| 20 |
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Ch. 5 Filipinos | singularity | 21 |
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| eccentricity | 21 |
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| malleability | 21 |
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| antimiscegenation | 23
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| colorism | 23 |
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| mestizo | 23 |
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| barangay | 24 |
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| crystalline | 24 |
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| apo | 24 |
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| mired | 24 |
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| remittances | 25 |
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| repatriate | 26 |
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| byzantine | 28 |
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CH.6 Mexican José and Filipino Jose | bracero | 30 |
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Ch. 7 Fake | Furrowing
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| Muddling
| 32 |
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| Exuded
| 32 |
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| Faustian
| 34 |
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PART II: Passing Ch. 1 Playing a Role | extemporaneous | 47 |
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| appropriating
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| Syncopated
| 51 |
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| Dissonant
| 52 |
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| Discordant
| 52 |
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Ch.2 Mountain View High School | antithesis | 58 |
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| unencumbered | 58
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| myopia | 58
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| chuzpah | 58
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| Omnipresent | 59
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| benevolent | 61
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Ch. 3 An Adopted family | fretting | 63 |
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| taciturn | 66
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Ch. 4 Breaking the Law |
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Ch. 5 The Master Narrative
| circumvent | 73 |
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| Prism
| 73 |
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| Ubiquitous
| 76 |
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| marginalized | 78
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Ch. 6 Ambition | perplex | 82 |
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Ch. 7 White People | condescend | 87 |
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Ch. 8 The Washington Post | litany | 89 |
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| compartmentalize | 91
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Ch. 9 Strangers |
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Ch. 10 Bylines | Reconciled
| 97 |
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| Scoffed
| 100 |
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| Irked
| 101 |
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Ch. 11Campaign 2008 | Ricocheted
| 103 |
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| Procuring
| 104 |
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