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aCtiVitY 2.2
academic and Social Language Preview
Learning Target
• Develop knowledge of a growing set of academic and social vocabulary to comprehend when reading and to create precision and shades of meaning in one’s own speaking and writing.
VoCabULarY PreVieW
contact: (noun) when two people or things physically touch each other furnished: (adjective) supplied with furniture
have a great mind to: (idiom) be strongly inclined to
least: (noun) the smallest thing that someone can do
mistrust: (verb) to have no trust in, to be suspicious of
nor: (conjunction) used after a negative statement to add a related negative statement pause: (noun) a short time when something is stopped before starting again
release: (verb) to set free, to let go of
right square: (idiom) in the very center of
roomers: (noun) people who rent rooms in other people’s houses
struggle: (verb) to try hard to move yourself
unless: (preposition) except possibly
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