The Marino Mission. 1000 Need-to-Know SAT Vocabulary Words

335 Pages·3.419 MB·English

by  Chapman K.B.

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THE
MARINO
MISSION
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THE
MARINO
MISSION
One Girl, One Mission,
One Thousand Words
1,000 Need-to-Know
*SAT Vocabulary Words
Karen B. Chapman
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Table of Contents
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A Futile Request 1
2
Captivating Creatures 11
3
A Serendipitous Find 27
4
An Old Maxim 41
5
A Surprising Revelation 49
6
Pecas’ Plea 59
7
The Clandestine Mission 73
8
Not a Nemesis 81
9
A Contemptuous Claim 87
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A Conflagration Ignites 101
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A Stealthy Scheme 119
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The DNA Debacle 135
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A Moral Ambiguity 145
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Late-Night Liberation 155
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Friendship — An Eternal Verity 169
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A Preponderance of Evidence 177
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A Nebulous Future 193
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The Proverbial Invitation 199
Vocabulary Exercises 205
Vocabulary List 283
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About the Author
Karen B. Chapman, Ph.D., grew up in upstate New York and graduated
from Cornell University with a B.S. in Biology. She received a Ph.D. in
Molecular Biology and Genetics from John Hopkins University School of
Medicine and went on to complete postdoctoral fellowships at both the
Pasteur Institute in Paris and at Harvard Medical School. Currently, she
resides in Northern California with her husband and four young children.
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A Futile Request
A
lexa waited at the school entryway, anxiously scanning the line of
cars jostling for position at the curb. It was five after 3:00 on
Friday and the school week was mercifully over. Today Alexa’s father was
scheduled to pick her up along with Doug and Caroline, the two other
kids in her carpool. Alexa was fervently hoping that her dad wouldn’t be
late. It was so awkward to wait when Doug and Caroline were impatient
to leave.
“Is your mom coming?” Doug asked pointedly.
Alexa shifted uncomfortably and adjusted the wayward straps of
her backpack. Doug was the star of both the junior varsity soccer team
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and the lacrosse team. In the social hierarchy of Ithaca High School,
Doug reigned with a status and popularity unmatched by his classmates.
Alexa was far too shy to pursue a friendship with a boy like Doug, but
the proximity of their houses made it natural for them to carpool together.
Caroline was the third member of their group, and her picture-perfect
1 Hierarchy: the classification of a group of people according to ability or to economic, social, or profes-
sional standing; pecking order, chain of command
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