[
"Pearl Sydenstricker",
"American writer whose life as a missionary in China lent a vivid immediacy to her novels, including <em>The Good Earth</em> (1931). She won the 1938 Nobel Prize for literature."
]
User Defined Definitions
"a gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting"
"a piece of paper money worth one dollar"
"a framework for holding wood that is being sawed"
"to strive with determination"
"resist"
"move quickly and violently"
"jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched"