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Fences Vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A & P | a grocery store chain |
| Eating beans | a slang expression that means one has run out of money and cannot afford more expensive food items, like meats |
| Uncle Remus | American folktale icon, famous for such tales as “Brer Rabbit;” widely seen as racist |
| Archangel Gabriel | angel responsible for sounding the trumpet that will open the gate of Heaven |
| Numbers | slang for lottery numbers |
| St. Peter | Biblical keeper of Heaven’s gate and the Book of Life |
| Walking blues | leaving one’s family behind and starting afresh in another locale |
| sensibility | sensitivity |
| Emulate | strive to equal or match |
| Guile | the quality of being crafty and deceitful |
| Crude | not refined; raw |
| Vulgar | indecent |