Word+Finder

=​Vocabulary​ (Darcy) =


 * 1) Renege: "Years later I discovered that the United States had been crossed thousands of times by frightened Black children traveling alone to their newly affluent parents in Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North renegade on it economic promises.
 * 2) not doing what you promised to do
 * 3)  Troubadour: "On Saturdays, barbers sat their customers in the shade on the porch of the Store, and troubadours on their ceaseless crawlings through the South leaned across its benches and sang their sad songs of The Brazos while they played juice harps and cigarbox guitars". (6)
 * 4) someone who sings folk songs
 * 5)  Fiscal : "From being a mobile lunch counter, she set up a stand between the two points of fiscal interest and supplied the workers' needs for a few years". (6)
 * 6) dealing with finances
 * 7) Calamitous: "Our parents had decided to put an end of their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother". (5)
 * 8) devastating
 * 9) Thwarted: "...would forever have power over it. But in my case of sacrificial effort I was thwarted" (11).
 * 10) to frustrate or oppose
 * 11) anachronism: "... porch that clung to its sides all around the house. An independent Black man. A near anachronism in Stamps" (22).
 * 12) something that is not correct chronologically
 * 13) morose: "There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child" (88).
 * 14) gloomy
 * 15) admonish: "Bailey sat down beside me, and that time didn't admonish me not to cry" (53).
 * 16) to caution or counsel

= Keith = = = 1. Immaterial-“Whether I could remember the rest of the poem or not was immaterial.” (pg. 1) a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Of no importance or relevance; inconsequential or irrelevant <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">2. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Taffeta-“The dress I wore was lavender taffeta, and each time I breathed it rustled, and now that I was sucking in air to breathe out shame it sounded like crepe paper on the back of hearses.” (pg.1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A crisp, smooth, plain-woven fabric with a slight sheen <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">3. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Nappy-“…had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.” (pg.3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fuzzy, tightly curled or coiled. Used of hair. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">4. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Persimmon-“I stumbled and started to say something, or maybe to scream, but a green persimmon, or it could have been a lemon, caught me between the legs and squeezed.” (pg.3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tropical trees of the genus Diospyros, having hard wood and orange-red fruit that is edible. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">5. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Calamitous-“Our parents had decided to put end to their calamitous marriage, and Father shipped us home to his mother.” (pg.5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Devastating <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">6. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Reneged-“…Northern cities, or back to grandmothers in Southern towns when the urban North reneged on its economic promises.” (pg.5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">To fail to carry out a promise or commitment <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">7. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Anachronism-“…porch that clung to its sides all around the house. An independent Black man. A near anachronism in Stamps.” (pg.22) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">8. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Fiscal-“From being a mobile lunch counter, she set up a stand between the two points of fiscal interest and supplied the workers' needs for a few years". (pg.6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;">a. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Managing finances  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> = =