Vocabulary

1.  Descendants:(p.6)- If somebody over there accidentally hurt somebody else, they’d make up for it, no matter how long it took. And if they died before they made up for it, then their descendants would take over. N-one who has descended or come from another.

2.  Immigrant- (p.5)-But then, Grampa was a first generation immigrant and looked at things in a certain way.

3.  Issei- (p.5) But then, Grampa was issei, first generation immigrant and looked at things in a certain way. N-a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.

4.  clenched: Grampa clanched and flexed his jaw, and made his lips curl back to suck air in through his teeth. (p.46) V- to set or close tightly.

5.  convoys: You could see convoys of green trucks and jeeps raising dust on the red-dirt roads past the cane fields. (p. 25) N-a protective escort or a group convoyed or organized for convenience or protection in moving

6.  corrugated: It was the only home I had every known and I loved it. I loved its silver painted corrugated iron roof, which slanted down into gutters that that flowed into the round water tank in the back. (p.6) N-a ridge or groove of a surface that has been corrugated

7.  decendants: N-one who has descended or come from another.

8.  devotion: N-the fact or state of being ardently dedicated and loyal

9.  fanatics: The Kaka’ako Boys were a bunch of too-young-for-varsity baseball fanatics like us, stink-eyed mitt punchers who were getting ready to play for the Mick Sluggers at McKinley. (p.21) N-marked by excessive enthusiasm and often intense uncritical devotion

10. humiliation: Humiliation swelled in my throat. I squeezed my fists. (p.10) V-to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes

11. samurai: Under my bed, wrapped in a silky scarf and burlap bag was Grampa’s treasure-the family katana or samurai sword. The katana had been in our family for over three hundred years. (p.30) Adj-the warrior aristocracy of Japan

12. symbol: It was our most prized possession, he said, the symbol of generations of honorable living in our family. (p.30) N-something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance ; especially : a visible sign of something invisible <the lion is a symbol of courage>

12. delinquent: So…what about the rest of those juvenile delinquents you run around with? (p.22)

13. wary: Adj-marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger