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Chapter 5-8
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Chapter 5-8 Vocab
Question | Answer |
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gained advantage or mastery, triumphed | prevailed |
cautiously | warily |
swellings at the first joint of the big toes | bunions |
smooth and shiny, well-kept, polished | sleek |
wishing evil or harm to others | malevolently |
showing resentment and ill humor, gloomily, sadly | sullenly |
loud enough to be heard | audible |
trimly or smartly in appearance | nattily |
successfully, happily | triumphantly |
sluggishly, indifferently, slowly | languidly |
a type of parrot with mainly white feathers that may be tinged with yellow or pink | cockatoo |
a lawyer | attorney |
a stove with rounded, bulging sides | Pot-bellied stove |
refers to World War | Their German war |
a slang word for a poor, white, rural Southerner, often thought to be ignorant, prejudiced, and violent | Redneck |
soldiers who fought for the South (the Confederacy) during the Civil War | Rebel soldiers |
is the army that fought for the North (the Union) during the Civil War | Yankee Army |
Ford automobiles and the first cars that were mass-produced. | Model-T’s |
admonished | cautioned against; warned |
bewildered | hopelessly confused |
interminable | without end |
avenging | getting back at someone for an injury or a wrong |
goaded | prodded into action |
revenue | income; an item or a source of income |
denote | to be a sign of; to indicate |
impaled | pierced through with, or fixed on, with something pointed |
sentinels | people or animals sent to guard a group |
fallow | left unplanted, unused |
Shantytown | an area where a group of poor and/or homeless people have congregated. |
Shreveport | a city in northwest Louisiana. |
Martinique | an island in the West Indies. |
Collateral | anything that is given to secure or guarantee an obligation. |
Mulatto | a person who has one black parent and one white parent. |
Title | the evidence of ownership of real estate. |
Boycott | the act of refusing to buy, sell, or use something. |
Bootlegging | making, selling, or carrying liquor illegally. |
Yankee carpetbaggers | Northerners who went to the South after the Civil War to take advantage of the unsettled conditions there. |