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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

1. admonished - given a warning

2. amiable - good natured, agreeable

3. emaciated - to become too thin or waste away

4. meticulous - careful about details

5. temerity - foolish disregard for danger, reckless

6. formidable - frightening because of size or strength

7. sinewy - rippling muscles, lean and strong

8. conspire - to plan a crime with someone

9. oblivious - not aware or conscious of

10. haughty - arrogantly proud

11. ransacked - plundered or pillaged

12. malevolent - with evil intent

13. retaliated - sought revenge, strike back

14. ominous - with foreboding an evil intent

15. reprimand - to chastise or reproach severely

16. insolent - insultingly, rudely

17. goaded - to incite into action, prompt

18. feigned - not real, fake or pretended

19. jovial - joyful or happy attitude

20. condescending - patronizing, to put down

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Historical Background

1. boycott - open rejection of business or product

2. chain gang - prisoners who work on roads

3. collateral - holding something in security for payment

4. lynching - hanging of people without a trial

5. mercantile - market or general store

6. mortgage - money paid monthly for lent property

7. nigger - derogatory term for Negro

8. nightriders - white people who unjustly punish Negroes

9. patron/patronize - to be a customer of

10. prejudice - judge someone wrongly for who they are

11. racism - discrimination of people because of color

12. Reconstruction - Period of rebuilding the South after Civil War

13. segregation - separating groups of people because of race

14. sharecropper - one who pays to farm another’s land

15. “Uncle Tomming” - White people befriending Negroes

16. Yankee - Northerners

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