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Roll of Thunder
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Chapter 1-4 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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meticulously | very carefully |
pensively | thoughtfully, often with some sadness |
undaunted | not held back by fear |
emblazoned | displayed brilliantly |
gleaned | collected (often refers to collecting the last bits of grain) |
reverberated | echoed |
ebbed | weakened or lessened |
temerity | foolish or rash boldness; recklessness |
maverick | a person who takes an independent stand |
formidable | causing fear or dread |
resilency | the ability to recover strength, spirits, or good humor quickly |
embittered | made resentful or sad |
coddling | treating someone tenderly such as an infant or an invalid. |
flippantly | disrespectfully |
rash | too hasty or incautious in acting or speaking |
oblivious | forgetful or unmindful |
haggard | having a worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness |
riveted | fixed or held firmly |
nauseous | feeling a sickness of the stomach; feeling disgusted |
fathom | to get to the bottom of; to understand thoroughly |
sharecroppers | people who worked on farms or plantations for a percentage of money gained by selling crops |
plantation | estate owned by a person or family who has workers living on the land to help with work |
reconstruction | the process of reorganizing the southern states after the civil war |
Yankee | a person from a northern state |
Confederacy | the group of southern states that tried to pull out of the USA in 1860 and 1861. |
Memphis | a major city in western Tennessee |
Jackson | the capital of Mississippi |
gin | to remove seeds from cotton |
calfskin | soft, flexible leather made from the hide of a calf |
reader | a schoolbook containing stories, poems, and other reading selections |
"Devilish night men" | Refers to the Ku Klux Klan |
Whooping Cough | a disease affecting children including repeated attacks of coughing that end in a forced intake of breath or whoop |
"Tarred and feathered' | when someone is coated with tar then feathers as a punishment |
Macon | city in central Georgia |
Vicksburg | a city on the Mississippi River west of Jackson |
Tenant Farming | farming land owned by another person and paying rent in cash or crops |