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Several of the words listed below are used in the short story “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara or in “The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner; the rest are related to this week’s focus prefixes.  Please define each word on your own paper using a print or online dictionary.  You will have a quiz on the meanings of these words and the prefixes “sign-” (to mark) and “curr/curs/cours-“ (to run) this week.

1. Commotion (n.) –
2. Corridor (n.) -
3. Courier (n.) – a messenger
4. Current (n.) – a running flow, as of water or electricity
5. Curriculum (n.) – the program or “run” of classes offered to a student
6. Cursory (adj.) – quick, as in a “cursory glance”
7. Discourse (n.) – a long speech or conversation on one topic
8. Forfeit (v.) -
9. Insignia (n.) –

10.  Occur (v.) –

11.  Precursor (n.) – one who comes before someone else (a “forerunner”)

12.  Prodigy (n.) -

13.  Signal (n.) – a planned way of giving a warning or command

14.  Signify (v.) –

15.  Significant (adj.) – important, meaningful

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