Do-Now: Vocabulary for “The Train from Rhodesia”
Name: ________________________ Date: Friday, October 14, 2011
Using the word bank below, insert the vocabulary word you believe fits best in each sentence
WORD BANK kraal incredulous apartheid piccanin sinew verandah smut valance wryly
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When entering the village, he saw the cattle __________ within the enclosure for safety at night.
2.
The ___________ system of South Africa wasn’t completely abolished until the early 1990s.
3.
He had harked back to childhood, and when his father came, the prisoner, in his clanking irons, turned to him as a ______________ might have done for protection from some bugaboo.
4.
The _____________ is paved with marble, and disposed in it are numerous tables and chairs.
5.
You’re eating food in the classroom?" he asked with a _______________ expression.
6.
She noticed the ______________ of scrolled wood that outlined the roof.
7.
Her face was drawn up, __________, like the face of a discomforted child.
8.
The young day's strength is ours in _________ and muscle,
9.
___________ floated out from the chimney and dispersed across the city.
VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS
_______________ : Short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window
_______________ : An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of
South Africa, involving discrimination against nonwhites
_______________ : Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe
_______________ : A particle of dirt; A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt
_______________ : A derogatory name for a small (usually black) child
_______________ : Distorted, or awkward
_______________ : A cord or tendon of the body; that which gives strength
_______________ : A pen for livestock in southern Africa
_______________ : A porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)

Word Bank
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Kraal
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Apartheid
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Piccanin
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Verandah
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VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS valance : Short curtain that hangs along the top edge of a window. apartheid An official policy of racial segregation formerly practiced in the Republic of South Africa, involving political, legal, and economic discrimination against nonwhites. incredulous : Skeptical, disbelieving, or unable to believe.
Smut : A particle of dirt. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt. piccanin A derogatory name for a small (usually black) child; wryly :distorted, or awkward sinew : A cord or tendon of the body; That which gives strength kraal : a pen for livestock in southern Africa verandah a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)