Vocab 10-18
Tiny or small; to make one feel smaller
What is diminutive?
Renata and Evelyn are related in this way.
What are sisters?
After leaving the beach, the Castillos' boat has this defect in it.
What is a bullet hole?
The way that the soldiers helped Mahmoud's family.
What is 'showing the safest route'?
Seeing a black cat walking under a ladder is about as _______ as opening an umbrella inside and knocking over a salt shaker.
What is ominous?
To stare awkwardly or obviosuly
What is to gawk?
The person who did not attend Josef's bar mitzvah.
Who is Josef's father?
The leader of the Castillos' boat.
Who is Senor Castillo??
The item that Mahmoud's father runs back to the car/
What is a phone?
In such _____ living conditions, cockroaches even moved out, finding the place too grotesque.
What is squalid?
A repeated phrase in a song or poem.
What is a refrain?
The reason Renata and Evelyn do no listen to Josef after he disapproves of their pranks.
What is 'a bar mitzvah doesn't make you an adult'?
Lito's brother.
Who is Guillermo?
The type of toy Mahmoud bought for Waleed.
What is a used Raphael from TMNT?
"Oh hein hein!" said the caricature of a Frenchman, donning his striped shirt, ascot, and _____.
What is a beret?
To be cut or divided into two
What is bisected?
The question Josef asks Captain Schroeder in chapter 16.
What is 'why are we going so fast'?
The topic of Lito and Isabel's disagreement.
What is 'returning to Cuba'?
The app that guides Mahmoud's family to refugees walking to Turkey.
What is Google Maps?
The rope bridge was held together by mere threads, leaving a ______ stare to all passersby.
What is dubious?
One who disagrees with the majority, typically politically
What is a dissident?
What is drinking alcohol?
The musical heartbeat of Cuba, possibly not found in Miami.
What is clave?
The type of shop Mahmoud's family sleeps in during ch 18.
What is a yogurt shop?
While now solely used to denote extremism, _____ was briefly used as slang for 'cool' and/or 'awesome' during the late 1900s.
What is radical?