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Unit 7 Vocabulary
Little Rock Nine
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Occasion | A special or important event |
| Determined | Having a strong desire to do something |
| Furious | Very angry |
| Mission | Something that you must do |
| Segregation | The practice of separating people of different races, sexes, or religions |
| Courageously | Bravely; confidently dealing with a dangerous or painful situation |
| Commemoration | Act of remembering and respecting an important person or event in the past |
| Reconciliation | Situation in which two people become friendly again after fighting |
| Bitter | Jealous and upset because you feel you have been treated unfairly. |
| Rapprochement | Establishment of a friendly relationship after a period of conflict |
| Inconsistencies | Situations in which two statements are different, and both cannot be true |
| Incredulously | Being unable or unwilling to believe something |
| Hick | Uneducated, a person who lives in the country, regarded as being unintelligent |
| Remorseful | To be sorry for something you had done |
| Deceased | A dead person |
| Armory | A place where guns and other military equipment is kept |
| Precise | Exact; following the rules or form |
| Caravan | A single line of vehicles traveling together |
| Intervals | Spaces |
| Imposing | Impressive, due to size or power |
| Salute | Greet formally, often by a gesture of the hand |
| Peered | Looked carefully or intently, with some difficulty |
| Process | A set of steps or actions; a way of doing something |
| Intercom | A device that allows people in separate rooms to communicate; common in schools for use by the principal and others to make announcements |
| Denied | Rejected; unacknowledged |
| Reservations | Concerns; fears that something bad will happen |
| Preparations | Steps taken to prepare for something |
| School board | A group of people from the same community as the school who make decisions about how the school should handle certain issues |
| Model | An example |
| Compassionate | Able to understand and feel sympathy for others |
| Scholarships | Set amounts of money given to students to help them pay for school; often for college |
| Urge | A strong feeling or impulse to do something |
| Innocence | A lack of exposure to or understanding of the negative side of the world |
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