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Unit 7 Vocabulary
Little Rock Nine
Term | Definition |
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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 |