Transcript The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

The Best Christmas
Pageant Ever
vocabulary
contagious
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capable of transmitting disease; carrying a disease, catching, transmittable,
infectious
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Page 9 - "Right now?" Miss Hemphill stared. "Why, he shouldn't be in school
with red spots! It could be measles or chicken pox . . . any number of things .
. . contagious things."
Penitentiary
(noun) - a prison for those convicted of major crimes, correctional institution,
joint,
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keep, lockup, pen, penal institution, prison, reformatory, slammer
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Page 14 - We figured they were headed straight for %*!#, by way of the state
penitentiary . . .
privet
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(n) any of various Old World shrubs having smooth entire leaves and terminal
panicles of small white flowers followed by small black berries; many used for
hedges
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Page 16 - One of the neighbor women called out, "Helen, are you in much
pain?" and Mrs. Armstrong yelled back, "Yes, terrible! Don't let those children
tear up my privet hedge!"
sentiment
(noun) - a thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion
instead of reason; opinion, attitude, outlook, reaction
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Page 21 - He shrugged. "I like all the other stuff but she said to write down
what we liked best,and what I like best is no Herdmans."
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"Not a very Christian sentiment," my father said.
sacrilegious
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adj) - grossly irreverent toward what is or is held to be sacred, disrespectful,
profane, blasphemous, improper, godless, sinful
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Page 35 - Alice's mother told the Ladies' Aid that it was sacrilegious to let
Imogene Herdman be Mary.
barge
(verb) - to intrude or interrupt, especially rudely, break in, burst in, collide,
infringe,
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muscle in, push
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Page 36 - Some people said it wasn't fair for a whole family who didn't even go
to our church to barge in and take over the pageant.
espoused
(adj) - to take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry, betrothed, engaged
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Page 41 - ". . . Joseph and Mary, his espoused wife, being great with child . .
vengence
(noun) - punishment for an injury or wrong
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Page 45 - "Out of the black night with horrible vengeance, the Mighty Marvo--"
bazaar
(n) a fundraising sale of goods, typically for charity.
But Mrs. McCarthy got somebody else to do that, and Mother got somebody else
to do the bazaar.
congregation
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(n) a group of people assembled for religious worship.