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"American Born Chinese" by Gene Luen Yang, List 1

Wed Aug 19 15:40:14 EDT 2015
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Through three interlinked stories, this award-winning graphic novel explores assimilation, racism, and stereotypes.

This list covers vocabulary from pages 1–67.

Here are links to our lists for the work: List 1, List 2, List 3
deity
Now the monkey king was a deity in his own right.
discipline
He quickly mastered thousands of minor disciplines as well as the four major heavenly disciplines, prerequisites to immortality.
fidget
He fidgeted this way and that (monkeys just aren't very good at waiting) but forced himself to stay in line.
anticipation
By the time the monkey king arrived at the front gate, he was beside himself with anticipation.
sovereign
"I am the sovereign ruler of flower-fruit mountain, where the flowers bloom year-round and the fruits are heavy with nectar!"
parable
"My mother once told me an old Chinese parable."
haggle
Every day when the son played, he pretended to buy and sell sticks he found on the street, haggling over prices with his friends.
forfeit
"...so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul."
decree
The morning after the dinner party the monkey king issued a decree throughout all of flower-fruit mountain.
fervently
He locked himself deep down in the inner bowels of his royal chamber, where he studied kung-fu more fervently than ever.
seclusion
"Sire, on the first night of your seclusion, the winds carried this down from heaven."
transcend
"This 'monkey king' it speaks of no longer exists, for I have mastered twelve major disciplines of kung-fu and transcended my former title!"
sage
"I am now the great sage, equal of heaven."
immortality
The great sage then visited Lao-tzu, patron of immortality...
emissary
Soon after, the gods, the goddesses, the demons, and the spirits gathered before the lion, the ox, the human, and the eagle, emissaries of Tze-Yo-Tzuh.

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