The Breadwinner Vocabulary and Spelling List

Students are to complete a definition and sentence for each of the vocabulary terms.

• chador
• Taliban
• forbid
• forbade
• burqa
• toshak
• looter
• shalwar kameez

• land mine
• hospitable
• turban
• illiterate
• nan
• preoccupied 
• basin
• embroidery

• union
• sensible
• warily
• sulk
• brusque
• gingerly
• gruff