Week 6 Vocabulary Words

6. In The Hunger Games, Effie Trinkett visits the impoverished districts outside the capital to escort children to forced fights to the death as tributes to the capital. Despite the horrible competition she is a part of, Effie's only concern is the appearance of the tributes and her own reputation. Effie never develops real compassion or concern for the children which makes her a ___ character.
7. Mistral used her new-found celebrity to ___ her views on education, which began appearing in newspapers and journals throughout the Americas.
8. Her father __ on his child, making a garden for Lucila and listening with delight as she talked to the flowers, birds, and insects.
9. In one case, the young man committed suicide after being __ in a crime; in the other, a woman from a wealthy Santiago family abruptly replaced Lucila in the affections of the man she had hoped to marry.
11. In Finding Nemo, Crush helps Marlin and Dory. He is almost a stereotype of a surfer and calls everyone "Dude." He makes a few appearances in the movie which makes him a ___ character.
12. In Harry Potter Series, Harry Potter and his enemy Voldemort can are both similar and very different. They are considered __ characters.
14. The salary she received from her official position enabled her to pursue her literary and educational activities free of __ worries.

1. Lucila grew up in Chile’s Valley of Elquia, a place she ___ to frequently in her poems as an earthly paradise of vineyards, fig orchards, and green hills.
2. Unhappy that women did not __ much of the world, she served on the United States Committee on the Status of Women.
3. In the Harry Potter series, we see Harry go through multiple conflicts, learn along the way, and has ups and downs which makes him a ___ character.
4. Friends remembered her as a solitary child whose __ ways cut her off from companionship. She compensated for this by creating a rich interior world for herself. By the age of eleven, she was writing her first poems.
5. At the beginning of the movie Napoleon Dynamite, 32-year old Kip Dynamite lives in his grandmother's house and spends all day on Internet chat rooms. By the end of the movie, Kip has a girlfriend and is moving to Detroit to pursue his dream of becoming a rapper. Kip Dynamite is a ___ character.
6. But his ___ ways and frequent absences caused quarrels between Lucila’s parents. When the little girl was three, her father disappeared from her life forever.
10. Tala made the reference of "The Felling of Trees," which is a reference to the __ destruction of Chile’s forests by greedy timber barons.
13. All schools and official buildings were closed. Flags were lowered to half-mast. Was the nation __ the passing of a president or a famous general? No. The person whose death was being marked with such pomp was a poet.