Vocabulary

Our first vocabulary quiz is over vocabulary excerpts from the "Why Fear Spanish?" article we read this week. If you lost your study guide (issued Tues. 9/3), look up the definitions of the underlined words in the excerpts below.

The quiz will be 9/13.

“Suddenly, we were accosted by a

spry little old lady.”

“The lady in question was not an eccentric mad woman.”

“The Miami Herald occasionally includes and unsolicited supplement.”

“Hostility does not come from reflection on linguistic homogeneity,

but from an atavistic reaction.”

'I fear foreigners are inevitably

considered barbarians.”

“We quarrel, are jealous, love and hate with certain words.”

“...can have a certain enriching enchantment, because diversity is also an expression of cultural riches.”

“American society spends $$$ every year in attempting unavailingly to get high school and college students to learn Spanish…”

“If this is the rationale, then why ask the bilingual citizens present in the nation to abandon their

use of that other language so covetously sought in educational establishments?”

“The United States is and will continue to be a fundamentally English-speaking nation.”