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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Vocab Set 2

For each image on the slides to come, select the BEST image to represent the vocabulary term. skirmish gauche exile berate misnomer pantomime delinquent maverick sprawl fluster. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Vocab Set 2. Skirmish (n). Definition: a minor or brief argument

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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Vocab Set 2

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  1. For each image on the slides to come, select the BEST image to represent the vocabulary term. skirmish gauche exile berate misnomer pantomime delinquent maverick sprawl fluster How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents – Vocab Set 2

  2. Skirmish (n) • Definition: a minor or brief argument • Other forms: skirmish (v) • Syn: fight, battle, conflict • Ant: truce

  3. Gauche (adj) • Definition: socially awkward; lacking social experience or grace • Other forms: gauchely (adv); gaucheness (n) • Syn: clumsy, awkward • Ant: graceful, suave

  4. Exile (n) • Definition: a situation in where you are forced to leave your country or home and go to live in a foreign place • Other forms: exile (v) • Syn: banishment, expulsion • Ant: return, immigration

  5. Berate (v) • Definition: to yell at or to criticize • Other forms: berated (v) • Syn: reprimand, scold • Ant: approve, praise

  6. Misnomer (n) • Definition: a name that is not wrong, improper, or appropriate • Other forms: misnomered (adj) • Syn: none • Ant: none Rattlesnake

  7. Pantomime (n) • Definition: a way of expressing information or telling a story without using words by using body movements and facial expressions • Other forms: pantomimic (adj) • Syn: gesture, mime • Ant: none

  8. Delinquent (n) • Definition: A young person who regularly does illegal or immoral things • Other forms: delinquency (n), delinquent (adj) • Syn: none • Ant: none The guy above is Chief Keef. He is known to promote violence in the Chicagoland area.

  9. Maverick (n) • Definition: a person who refuses to follow the customs or rules of a group • Other forms: none • Syn: loner, free spirit • Ant: conformist, follower

  10. Sprawl (v) • Definition: to lie or sit with arms or legs spread out • Other forms: sprawling • Syn: none • Ant: none

  11. Flustered (adj) • Definition: To be made nervous or confused • Other forms: fluster (v) • Syn: embarrassed, confused • Ant: encouraged

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