for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: List 2

by Ntozake Shange
In Shange's groundbreaking "choreopoem," a series of African-American women, identified only by the colors they wear, deliver monologues about their lives.

Here are links to our lists for the choreopoem: List 1, List 2, List 3
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  1. ensconce
    fix firmly
  2. meander
    move or cause to move in a winding or curving course
  3. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
  4. etch
    carve or cut a design or letters into
  5. iridescent
    varying in color when seen in different lights
  6. deliberate
    carefully thought out in advance
  7. coquette
    a woman who flirts, often for personal gain
  8. arrogant
    having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance
  9. tactful
    showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people
  10. suitor
    a man who courts a woman
  11. reverent
    feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
  12. dumbfounded
    as if rendered speechless with astonishment and surprise
  13. malice
    the desire to see others suffer
  14. livid
    furiously angry
  15. indifference
    apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
  16. tinsel
    a showy decoration that is basically valueless
  17. vengeful
    disposed to take action in return for a perceived wrong
  18. exploit
    a notable achievement
  19. stagnant
    not growing or changing; without force or vitality
  20. spurn
    reject with contempt
  21. wane
    become smaller
  22. unrelenting
    not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
  23. fancy
    a predisposition to like something
  24. requiem
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  25. redundant
    repeating the same sense in different words
Created on Wed Mar 11 10:56:10 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Mar 11 11:07:32 EDT 2020)

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