Raisin in the Sun Part 1

Samantha W. (United States of America)
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  1. assimilation
    the process of absorbing one cultural group into another
  2. bastion
    projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
  3. beseech
    ask for or request earnestly
  4. defiance
    a hostile challenge
  5. exasperate
    make furious
  6. forlorn
    marked by or showing hopelessness
  7. furtive
    secret and sly
  8. futile
    producing no result or effect
  9. graft
    tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient
  10. heathenism
    any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism
  11. indignant
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  12. insinuate
    suggest in an indirect or covert way; give to understand
  13. ledger
    a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
  14. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
  15. pretense
    the act of giving a false appearance
  16. quizzical
    perplexed
  17. rapt
    feeling great delight and interest
  18. recitation
    a public instance of repeating something prepared in advance
  19. stupor
    a state of being half-awake
  20. vain
    having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Created on Tue Dec 14 10:11:16 EST 2010

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