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92 words in order of appearance
INTRODUCTION: copious, nonchalant (also on p. 168), camaraderie, barraged (also on p. 186, 213, & 296), impeccably
CHAPTER 1: crinoline (also on p. 268), unequivocally, catapulted, benevolent (also on p. 195), forceps, indignant (also on p. 271)
CHAPTER 2: stark, sepia, prime, chide (also on p. 43 & 151), picaninny, hostler, placating, ominous (also on p. 220 & 309), chastising (also on p. 44 & 205), kowtow (also on p. 17)
CHAPTER 3: Hades
CHAPTER 4: pallor, meticulous (also on p. 139, 194, & 281), feisty (also on p. 70 & 72), fedora
CHAPTER 5: futile
CHAPTER 6: feigned
CHAPTER 7: reverberate, brusquely, tarry, pristine, rumpus room, parody
CHAPTER 8: respite, incendiary, hooligans (also on p. 140 & 213)
CHAPTER 9: moot, gauntlet (also on p. 112)
CHAPTER 10: clamor, anteroom
CHAPTER 11: disheveled, articulate, jeopardize, quash
CHAPTER 12: placid, pristine, respite, amended, demise
CHAPTER 14: inflammatory
CHAPTER 15: disseminating, gabardine (also on p. 178), pouf
CHAPTER 16: fiasco, ineptness, disheveled, reverberated, belligerent (also on p. 300), effigy
CHAPTER 17: poultice
CHAPTER 18: ostracized (ostracism on p. 198 & 274), adamant (also on p. 244), dither, garbled, trounced, frivolity
CHAPTER 19: edict
CHAPTER 20: insidious, melee
CHAPTER 21: respite, stave off, gingerly, fracas
CHAPTER 22: proviso, impasse
CHAPTER 25: veneer, adamant, inconsolable (also on p. 305), renegade (also on p. 308)
CHAPTER 26: vicarious, emaciated
CHAPTER 27: gauntlet, adversaries, insolent, accolades
CHAPTER 28: deity, tenacious, unmitigated, veneer, enclave, livid
Thank you to Sharon Green, a professor at Niagara University near Niagara Falls, New York for being our teacher contributor for Warriors Don't Cry written by Melba Pattillo Beals. |
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