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This document provides vocabulary words and definitions related to Ben Carson's life and education. It includes 18 terms with definitions like doodle, aimlessly, threatened, stabbed, and others describing challenging experiences and Carson's path to becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon, including growing up in an inner city, competing in spelling bees, and ultimately earning academic degrees.

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Ben Carson (Vocabulary)

This document provides vocabulary words and definitions related to Ben Carson's life and education. It includes 18 terms with definitions like doodle, aimlessly, threatened, stabbed, and others describing challenging experiences and Carson's path to becoming a pediatric neurosurgeon, including growing up in an inner city, competing in spelling bees, and ultimately earning academic degrees.

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INSTITUTO PANAMERICANO

FIRST BIMONTHLY PERIOD


READING AND WRITING 9th

Ben Carson - Vocabulary


1. Doodle: is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person's
attention is otherwise occupied.
2. Aimlessly: Without an aim, purpose or direction; in an aimless manner.
3. Threatened: to utter intentions of injury or punishment against someone.
4. Stabbed: pierced with a pointed weapon
5. Belt buckle:a clasp for fastening two ends, as of belt.
6. Deflected: turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest.
7. Pediatric neurosurgeon: someone who does surgery on the nervous system of
children.
8. Seizure: sudden attack due to an abnormal electrical discharge in the brain that
can cause a change in consciousness.
9. Ghetto: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic
group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
10. Dummy: an ignorant or foolish person.
11. Spelling bees: competition where contestants, usually children, are asked to
spell English words.
12. Temper: A tendency to anger or lose patience easily
13.

Knifed: to stab, slash, or wound with a knife.

14.

Fees: a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services

15. Scholarship: financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit
16. Grant: subsidy given by the government.
17. Suburb: a residential district located outside a city.
18. Degree: an award conferred by a high school, college or university signifying

that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study.

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