Vocabulary chapters 1-4

• HUD pg. 1
• Department of Housing and Urban development
• he uses this word to describe the way the basement looks.
• intelligible pg. 2:
• not capable of being understood
• he uses to describe the yelling between his uncle 

• Commodity pg. 5
• something of use or value
• He uses it to describe  the value of the food
• Van Gogh pg.15
•  a famous Dutch painter
•  he uses it to describe how beautiful  
• Loincloths pg. 20
• a piece of cloth worn around the loins or hip
• Explains what the boys were wearing while they were acting like "real" Indians

• Ferocity pg. 27
• Savage fierceness 
• He used it to describe the love that his mother had for his father  
• Alumnus pg. 39
• A graduate student
• He used this word to explain that all Indians were educated