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Directions: I gave you definitions for all the words. Read them. I gave you sentences with context clues for some of the words. READ THEM. I did not give you sentences for all the words. For words without sentences, make sentences up. Underline the words when you use them. Betel juice: Juice from chewed up betel nuts; contains alkaloids that increase heart rate; stains the teeth and has been linked to oral cancer. (think of it like spit from chewing tobacco) The old man was playing some strange game with white and black stones while spitting betel juice into a tin under the table. Imperialism: The policy of extending the rule of one country to foreign countries _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Theoretically: in theory; “on paper”

Theoretically we should have won the game, but somehow the score ended up being 107-42. We lost. Supplant: to take the place of DVDs have supplanted VHS when it comes to home entertainment systems. British Raj: Countries that Britain ruled or had colonized in the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia Burma, now sometimes called Myanmar was once a part of the British Raj. Prostrate: helpless, defenseless; lying face down _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Despot: a cruel and oppressive dictator _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Mahout: driver and keeper of an elephant _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________

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Labyrinth: maze _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Squalid: extremely dirty and unpleasant _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Dravidian: One of the original ethnicities of India and surrounding areas. You could tell by the man’s appearance that he was of Dravidian ancestry. Coolie: An unskilled Asian worker _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Conventional: ordinary, commonplace; represented in simplified form It was a very conventional classroom, with desks in rows, notes on the chalkboard, and the teacher in the front wearing a bowtie and lecturing. Pounds: British currency _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Senility: The losing of intelligence due to old age _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Pretext: a fake reason made up to hide the real reason

Our pretext for missing school was that we had a cheerleading tournament, but really we just wanted to go to a water-park. No, seriously Mr. Habecker, there WAS a tournament, but we could have a left a little later.