Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary Sandra Cisneros’ The House on Mango Street “The House on Mango Street”- “There Was an Old Woman”

2. adjective temporary for a limited time Example: “For the time being, Mama says. Temporary, says Papa.”

3. noun responsibility duty “And since she comes right after me, she is my responsibility.”

4. noun chandelier a light fixture that hangs from a ceiling Example: “Just like that, as if she were a fancy chandelier. That's the way he did it.”

5. verb inherit to receive from one who has gone before Example: “I have inherited her name, but I don't want to inherit her place by the window.”

6. verb baptize to give a first or Christian name to “I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees.”

7. noun marimbas a wooden, xylophone-like instrument “Or like marimbas only with a funny little plucked sound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb.”

8. adjective plucked removed with the fingers “Or like marimbas only with a funny little pluckedsound to it like if you were running your fingers across the teeth of a metal comb.”

9. verb slant sloped; made diagonal It is wooden. Inside the floors slant. Some rooms uphill. Some down.

10. adjective annual done every year “This is the tree we chose for the First Annual Tarzan Jumping Contest.:

11. adjective automatically done by machine “The windows didn't roll up like in ordinary cars. Instead there was a button that did it for you automatically.”