1. Admires Definition: Regards with wonder or esteem From the Passage: “Maman admires Sister Claire, my headmistress.”

2. Disappoint Definition: To fail to meet the expectation or hope of From the Passage: “At least, if I disappoint them, I will please Auntie.”

3. Enrolled Definition: Registered or signed up From the Passage: “So Manman enrolled me in the nuns’ school, against Auntie’s wishes.”

4. Especially Definition: In particular From the passage: “They, especially Sister Claire, have plans for who I will be.”

5. Honorable Definition: Deserving of esteem From the Passage: “’Your father was a good man, an honorable man.’”

6. Possibility Definition: Condition or fact of being possible From the Passage: “The possibility of disappointing them hangs over me.”

7. Recognize Definition: To acknowledge or take notice of in some definite way From the Passage: “’They recognize promise,” says Maman.”

8. Tense Definition: Form of a verb; past, present, or future From the Passage: “She uses the past tense.”

9. Throes Definition: Hard or painful struggles From the Passage: “In the throes of fever she is a visionary.”

10. Visionary Definition: Someone who is able to see something as if in a dream or trance From the Passage: “In the throes of fever she is a visionary.”