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Unit 7 Vocab
Little Rock Nine
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Occasion | A specific 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 religion. |
| Courageously | Bravely dealing with a dangerous or painful situation |
| Commemoration | Act of remembering and respecting an important person or an event in the past |
| Reconciliation | Situation in which 2 people became friendly after being treated unfairly |
| Bitter | jealous and upset because you feel that you've been treated unfairly. |
| Rapprochement | establishment of a friendly relationship after a period of conflict |
| Inconsistencies | situations in which two statements are different and both can't be different. |
| Hick | uneducated |
| Remorseful | to be sorry for something you've done |
| coaxed | persuaded into doing something |
| incredulously | being unable or unwilling to believe something |
| deceased | a dead person |
| armory | place where guns and other military equipment is kept |
| precise | exact |
| caravan | single line of vehicles |
| intervals | spaces |
| imposing | impressive due to size of power |
| salute | greet formally, often by a gesture of the hand |
| peered | looked carefully or intently with some difficulty |