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Vocabulary
Vocabulary Pt. 2
People & Time
Geography
Potpourri
100
The father handled the plumbing and electrical while the sons cleaned.
What is hierarchy?
100
The writer said that because of his father being an air conditioning mechanic lead to this.
What is his odyssey with air conditioning?
100
84 years.
What is the father's age?
100
The place where the father lived.
What is El Paso, TX?
100
The son and the father shared this passion.
What is air conditioning?
200
The way that the air conditioners were cleaned.
What is scouring?
200
Cleaning the air conditioners can be described as this.
What is grueling?
200
May
What month did the father die?
200
A place near where the father grew up.
What is the Guadalupe River?
200
This is the name of the air conditioner in the story.
What is a swamp cooler?
300
Air conditioners can be found in all Central Texas homes.
What is a mainstay of Central Texas homes?
300
Stories were told by his father.
What is regaling?
300
This war is where the father learned his craft.
What is World War II?
300
This is the state that the story took place in.
What is Texas?
300
This is the thing the father lost in the river as a boy.
What is the borrowed hammer?
400
The son thought that cleaning the air conditioner was this.
What is an integral process of cleaning the air conditioner?
400
The writer stood on the roof, able to see his old neighborhood.
What is panning?
400
The Texan who died in combat in World War II.
Who is Felix Longoria?
400
The place that Felix Longoria was buried in.
What is Arlington National Cemetary?
400
Parkinson's is included in these types of diseases.
What is a neurological disease?
500
In the story, the writer thinks that swamp coolers are this.
What is the epitome of air conditioners.
500
In the story, the writer showed this to President Lindon B. Johnson and Felix Longoria.
What is deference?
500
The author left home at this age.
What is 18 year old?
500
The state President Lyndon B. Johnson is from.
What is Texas?
500
The number of sons that the son has.
What are two sons?