The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

• By Barbara Robinson

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - contagious and
penitentiary

• "Right now?" Miss Hemphill stared. "Why, he
  shouldn't be in school with red spots! It could
  be measles or chicken pox . . . any number of
  things . . . contagious things."
• We figured they were headed straight for !, by
  way of the state penitentiary . . .  until they
  got themselves mixed up with the church, and my
  mother, and our Christmas pageant.

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - contagious and
penitentiary

• contagious - Capable of transmitting disease
  carrying a disease, catching, transmittable,
  infectious
• penitentiary - a prison for those convicted of
  major crimes, correctional institution,  joint,
  keep, lockup, pen

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - privet and
sentiment

• One of the neighbor women called out, "Helen, are
  you in much pain?" and Mrs. Armstrong yelled
  back, "Yes, terrible! Don't let those children
  tear up my privet hedge!"
• He shrugged. "I like all the other stuff but she
  said to write down what we liked best, and what I
  like best is no Herdmans."
• "Not a very Christian sentiment," my father said.

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - privet and
sentiment

• privet - any of various Old World shrubs having
  smooth entire leaves and terminal panicles of
  small white flowers followed by small black
  berries many used for hedges
• sentiment - a thought, view, or attitude,
  especially one based mainly on emotion instead of
  reason, emotion, opinion, attitude, outlook,
  reaction

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - sacrilegious and
barge

• Alice's mother told the Ladies' Aid that it was
  sacrilegious to let Imogene Herdman be Mary.
• Some people said it wasn't fair for a whole
  family who didn't even go to our church to barge
  in and take over the pageant.

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - sacrilegious and
barge

• sacrilegious - grossly irreverent toward what is
  or is held to be sacred, disrespectful, profane,
  blasphemous, improper, godless, sinful
• barge - to intrude or interrupt, especially
  rudely, break in, burst in, collide, infringe, 
  muscle in, push

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - espoused and
vengeance

• ". . . Joseph and Mary, his espoused wife, being
  great with child . . .
• "Out of the black night with horrible vengeance,
  the Mighty Marvo---"

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - espoused and
vengeance

• espoused - to take as spouse to take to wife to
  marry, betrothed,  engaged
• vengeance - with great violence or force,
  punishment, revenge, settling of scores,
  retaliation

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - villain and hustle

• "No, their chief instinct was to get Mary and the
  baby out of the barn. But even so, it was Herod
  they wanted to do away with, and not Mary or
  Joseph. They picked out the right villain --that
  must mean something."
• You got the feeling these Wise Men were going to
  hustle back to Herod as fast as they could an
  squeal on the baby, out of pure meanness.

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - villain and hustle

• villain - a wicked or evil person a scoundrel,
  bad character, rogue
• hustle - to work or move energetically and
  rapidly, hurry up

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - congregation and
milling

• And that's what we're going to do, just as if we
  were doing it for the whole congregation.
•   But by that time the kitchen was fuller of
  smoke than the ladies' room, because, while
  everybody was milling around in the street, all
  the applesauce cake burned up.

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - congregation and
milling

• congregation - a group of people gathered for
  religious worship, worshippers
• milling - moving about or around, shuffling

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - charitable and
confer

• My father was on the church charitable works
  committee --they give away food baskets at
  Christmas, and this was the Herdman's food-basket
  ham.
• While we sang "What Child Is This?" the Wise Men
  were supposed to confer among themselves and then
  leave by a different door, so everyone would
  understand that they were going home another way.

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Vocabulary Words of the Day  - charitable and
confer

• charitable - generous in giving money or other
  help to the needy, giving, accommodating
• confer - to meet in order to deliberate together
  or compare views, discuss, put heads together,
  have a conversation, consult

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