Vocabulary words from Langston Hughes' poetry

Shannon R. (United States of America) Vocabulary.com Contributor
Here are a few words that your students might find trick from the following poems by Langston Hughes: "April Rain Song," "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Harlem," and "Theme for English B."
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  1. bosom
    breast
  2. crust
    a hard outer layer that covers something
  3. defer
    yield to another's wish or opinion
  4. dusky
    lighted by or as if by twilight
  5. fester
    generate pus
  6. liquid
    fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume
  7. loll
    be lazy or idle
  8. syrupy
    overly sweet
Created on Sun Dec 14 14:47:32 EST 2008

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