Vocabulary Words

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• Vocabulary Words
• Created by M. Coliadis

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Vocabulary Words

• Jewish
• ignorant
• paskudnyaks
• corkscrew curls
• Pilgrim
• embroidered
• taunted
• Sukkos
• modern

• Shaynkeit
• Yiddish
• Malkeleh
• tenement
• Goraduk
• Cossack
• synagogue
• Russia
• Modern pilgrim

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Shaynkeit

• pretty one
• Mollys mama often called her shaynkeit.

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Yiddish

• A language A blend of German and Hebrew
• Mollys mother spoke Yiddish at home.

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Malkeleh

• means
• little Molly
• Oi, Malkeleh, we cant go back to New York
  City, said Mama.

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tenement

• A building divided into separate apartments for
  rent
• Molly lived in a poor tenement apartment in New
  York.

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Goraduk

• Russian city
• Goraduk is the city from which Molly came to
  America in the children's novel Molly's Pilgrim
  by Barbara Cohen. Molly and her family left
  Goraduk because the Cossacks were persecuting the
  Jews in that place.

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Cossack

• Russian calvary
• The Cossacks burned down the synagogue in the
  town of Goraduk.

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synagogue

• A Jewish house of worship
• Jewish people go to the synagogue to worship.

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Russia

• A country that makes up most of the continent of
  Asia
• Russia used to be called the Soviet Union.

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Jewish

• Relating to the Jews who are descendents of an
  ancient people called Hebrews
• At Mollys school there werent other Jewish
  girls.

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ignorant

• Having little knowledge, not knowing, unaware
• Joe was ignorant about the process of
  photosynthesis and could not explain it to his
  teacher.

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paskudnyaks

• naughty girls
• Mollys mom
• wanted to talk with the
• teacher so that the
• paskudnyaks would stop
• teasing Molly.

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Corkscrew curls

• Hair that is curled in the shape of a corkscrew
• Elizabeths hair was long and black with
  corkscrew curls.

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Pilgrim

• People who came from England to America for
  freedom to worship

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embroidered

• To make or fill in a design with
• needlework
• Mollys mother made an embroidered handkerchief
  for her.

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taunted

• To make fun of or say mean insulting things to
• Elizabeth taunted Molly because she could not
  speak English like everyone else.

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Sukkos (Sukkoth)

• The Jewish harvest holiday
• Molly celebrated the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth.

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aisle

• A passage between sections or seats
• The bride will walk down the aisle on her wedding
  day.

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modern

• Relating to the present time or times not long
  past
• Mollys mother is a modern pilgrim.

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Modern Pilgrim

• People who come from all around the world to
  America for freedom