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Unit 7 Vocabulary: The Choice to be Amish. Most definitions and example sentences are taken from either the Merrium -Webster Online Learners’s Dictionary or the NorthStar 3 Reading and Writing Book (3 rd Edition). Pious. Synonyms: godly, religious - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Unit 7 Vocabulary: The Choice to be Amish
Most definitions and example sentences are taken from either the
Merrium-Webster Online Learners’s Dictionary or the
NorthStar 3 Reading and Writing Book (3rd Edition)
Pious
• Synonyms: godly, religious
• Adjective: deeply religious; devoted to a particular religion
• The Amish are a pious people.
Allow
• Verb: permit to do something– Allow love to flow threw
you.
Convenience
• Noun: things that make life easier and more comfortable
• The Amish are known for living without modern conveniences such as a computer.
Socialize
• Synonyms: hang out, converse
• Verb: to talk and do things with other people in a friendly way
• The Amish meet in home-based churches and socialize with family and friends from the community.
Bond• Synonym: connection,
closeness
• Noun: a feeling of closeness
• He is trying to maintain his bonds with his family by using the Internet, but living far away has still been difficult.
• Verb: to join (something) together; to form a close relationship with someone
Maintain
• Synonyms: keep, preserve
• Verb: to keep or continue
• I want to maintain my weight, so I need to eat well and exercise.
• As the years pass, the Amish maintain their simple farming style.
Establish
• Synonyms: set up, start, found
• Verb: to begin something
• Pious and hardworking, the Amish established farming communities.
Settle down
• Synonyms: stabilize, take root• Verb:
1. to become quiet, calm, or orderly- The mother told the child to settle down.
2. to become a part of a community or region (to begin to live a quiet and steady life by getting a regular job, getting married)
- The Amish settled down in the United States and Canada.- My mom is always asking me when I am going to settle down.
Persecution
• Synonyms: abuse, mistreatment
• Noun: cruel and unfair treatment (especially because of race, religious or political beliefs).
• Different groups have been persecuted for their beliefs.
Increase
• Verb: to make great in size or amount
– The number of Amish has not declined but has increased.
Decline
• Verb: to decrease; to become lower in amount or less in number
• The number of Amish has not declined but has increased.
Be up in the air
• Verb phrase: to be unable to decide
• Ruth Irene was up in the air about her decision to marry Ottie.
The pros and cons
• Noun phrase: good and bad sides
• As Ruth and Ottie developed a friendship, she had to think about the pros and cons of being close to an outsider.
The deciding factor
• Noun: the most important reason
• He has the opportunity to start his own business in Hong Kong. This was the deciding factor for him.
Be stuck between a rock and a hard place
• Verb phrase: having a hard time with a difficult choice
• While she really liked Ottie, she knew that if she followed him into the outside world, she would lose her Amish relationships. She was really struck between a rock and a hard place.
Turn (someone) down
• Verb: to say no to someone
• If she turned Ottie down, she might never see him again.
Open up a can of worms
• Verb phrase: to make a problem more complicated
• Don’t make things more complicated than they need to be; don’t open up a can of worms.
Regret
• Noun: a feeling of sadness or disappointment about something you did or didn’t do– Synonym: remorse– He knew that he would face
a lifetime of regret if he did not try it.
• Verb: to feel sad or sorry about– I deeply regret what I said.