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landmark law

passed earlier this year allows

refugees in Ethiopia to legally go

to school and get jobs, driver’s

licenses, and bank accounts.

root word- landmark

Definition in context- Monument

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Instead, she would have to lug water from the camp’s well, a time-consuming and arduous chore

root word- arduous

Definition in context- difficult

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It has food, water, durable shelters, and a health clinic

root word- durable

Definition in context- tough

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The camps are all located in a large, remote area.

Root word- remote

Definition in context- Far

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In the 1600's some 20,000 people made the perilous journey from England across the

Atlantic Ocean so they could practice their Protestant faith freely in the New World.

Root word- peril

Definition in context- Dangerous

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Famine has killed 260,000 Somalis.

Root word- famine

Definition in context- starvation

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Something in the darkness outside his room moved with a grunt and a scuffle.

Root word: grunt, scuff

Definition in context: low, short guttural sound, a short confused fight.

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He kicked and flailed in a panic, but one of the shadows caught his ankle and dragged him face-first across his bed.

Root word: flail

Definition in context: struggle uselessly

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Two more of the men jerked Josef away and held him as he fought against them.

Root word: jerk

Definition in context: move with a jerk

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It only took two tries to get the scrawny calico kitten to come out from under the pick cinder-block house and eat from Isabel Fernandez's hand.

Root word: scrawny

Definition in context: thin and boney

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The Brownshirt scowled at the noise and gave the man and gave the man carrying Aaron Landau a dismissive wave.

Root word: scowl

Definition in context: frown in a angry way

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The Brownshirt scowled at the noise and gave the man and gave the man carrying Aaron Landau a dismissive wave.

Root word: dismiss

Definition in context: contemptuous

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my grandmother, not to mention the staggering bill that waited on them at the white commissary downtown.

root word: commissary

Definition in context: a restaurant

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On Saturdays, barbers sat their customers in the shade of the porch  of the store, and troubadours on their ceaseless crawlings through the south leaned across its benches and sang their sad songs of The Brazos while they played juice harps and cigar-box guitars.

root word trobar

definition in context: french lyric

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root word: spare

Definition in context: Thinly spread not dense.

If he prophesied that the cotton in today's field was going to be Sparse and stick to the bolls like glue,every listener would grunt a hearty agreement.

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Two fiscal points of interest supplied the works need for a few years.

root word: fiscus

Definition in context:  relating to government bills revenue,

.

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our parents decided to put an end to there calamitous marriage

root word: calamity

definition in context: disastrous

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The odors of onions and oranges and kerosene had been mixing all night and wouldn't be disturbed until the wooded slat was removed from the door and the early morning air forced its way in with the bodies of people who had walked miles to reach the pickup place.

root word-keros

definition in context-oil lamp