Esperanza Rising Vocabulary Final Review

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Campesinos

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Peasant field workers

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Reaping

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Cut or gather a crop or harvest

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Sympathetic (adj)

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Feeling, showing, or expressing pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.

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composure (n)

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Self-controlled, calm state of mind.

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salvage (v)

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To save from a fire; shipwreck, etc.

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cinders (n)

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Mostly or partly burned pieces of wood or coal.

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poverty (n)

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Having little or no money or means of support; condition of being poor.

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charred (adj)

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Burned; scorched.

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peasant

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(n): a poor person of low social rank who, many times, farms the land

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jalopy (n)

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An old, worn out vehicle.