Collection 6: Poems from the Harlem Renaissance

As you compare Jean Toomer's "Song of the Son" and Countee Cullen's "From the Dark Tower" and Arna Bontemps' "A Black Man Talks of Reaping," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 6: Winter Dreams, poems of the Harlem Renaissance, poems by Robert Frost, The Crucible, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine, Reality Check, The Ends of the World as We Know Them, The Universe as Primal Scream
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  1. scant
    less than the correct or legal or full amount
  2. profligate
    recklessly wasteful
  3. epoch
    a period marked by distinctive character
  4. decline
    go down
  5. increment
    the amount by which something increases
  6. countenance
    consent to, give permission
  7. abject
    showing humiliation or submissiveness
  8. beguile
    attract; cause to be enamored
  9. subtle
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  10. sable
    a very dark black
  11. piteous
    deserving or inciting a feeling of sympathy and sorrow
  12. stark
    providing no shelter or sustenance
  13. reap
    gather, as of natural products
  14. sow
    place seeds in or on the ground for future growth
  15. glean
    gather, as of natural products
Created on Fri Jul 18 16:45:56 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 24 11:12:41 EDT 2014)

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