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Chapter Nineteen
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Chapter Nineteen Vocabulary


caliber Utopian truisms chasms
dysfunctional atheist agnostic shroud

Read the sentences below from the chapter. Write down what you think the word in bold means. Check your definition in the dictionary. Write the definition down from the dictionary. Write a new sentence for each word.

  1. Barry was determined to make a difference on this earth. I was too. But he was of a different caliber than I was.

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  2. As Barry worked furiously to build our town. I dreamed of a Utopian society. At one point I moved to the Venetie Reservation, thinking that would be the place where Indians were what my ideals told me they should be: sober, self-sufficient, and healthy.

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