Vocabulary

 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
	boisterous	xii
	asylum	xii
	Unmoored	xiii
Part I:  Lying	archipelago	4
Ch. 1 Gamblers
Ch. 2 The Wrong Country	polyphonic	7
	honorifics	9
	emanated	10
Ch. 3 Crittenden Middle School
Ch. 4 Not Black, Not White	microcosm	17
	plurality	17
	perplexing	18
	jeered	18
	binary	18
	internalizing	20
	tangible	20
Ch. 5 Filipinos	singularity	21
	eccentricity	21
	malleability	21
	antimiscegenation	23
	colorism	23
	mestizo	23
	barangay	24
	crystalline	24
	apo	24
	mired	24
	remittances	25
	repatriate	26
	byzantine	28
CH.6 Mexican José and Filipino Jose	bracero	30
Ch. 7  Fake	Furrowing	32
	Muddling	32
	Exuded	32
	Faustian	34
PART II: Passing Ch. 1 Playing a Role	extemporaneous	47
	appropriating	49
	Syncopated	51
	Dissonant	52
	Discordant	52
Ch.2 Mountain View High School	antithesis	58
	unencumbered	58
	myopia	58
	chuzpah	58
	Omnipresent	59
	benevolent	61
Ch. 3 An Adopted family	fretting	63
	taciturn	66
Ch. 4 Breaking the Law
Ch. 5 The Master Narrative	circumvent	73
	Prism	73
	Ubiquitous	76
	marginalized	78
Ch. 6 Ambition	perplex	82
Ch. 7 White People	condescend	87
Ch. 8 The Washington Post	litany	89
	compartmentalize	91
Ch. 9 Strangers
Ch. 10 Bylines	Reconciled	97
	Scoffed	100
	Irked	101
Ch. 11Campaign 2008	Ricocheted	103
	Procuring	104