Unit 3: Vocabulary from Readings 2

But most of the time, to my mother’s chagrin, the dolls rested one upon the other like fallen dominoes alongside a wall in my room.

Like millions of children in Mexico, at home we received presents on the Twelfth Night after the birth of Jesus Christ—Epiphany—a time to commemorate the revealing of baby Jesus to the Magi and their offering to him of myrrh, incense, and gold.

Throughout those years, they inculcated in me that intellectually and artistically I was as capable as my brothers.

“You will suffer,” my mother added, waving her finger admonishingly, to emphasize what she really wanted to say: “Conform.”

We wish to be fair and honorable in our dealings with the Caucasian
inhabitants of this land, and hereby offer the following treaty...

We will give to the inhabitants of this island a portion of that land for their own, to be held in trust by the American Indian Affairs and by the bureau of Caucasian Affairs to hold in perpetuity, for as long as the sun shall rise and the rivers go down to the sea.

It is isolated from modern facilities, and without adequate means of transportation.

It is isolated from modern facilities, and without adequate means of transportation.

The Fugitive Slave Law was no longer a great many incomprehensible words written down on the country’s lawbooks. The new law had become a reality.

She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.

I am able to speak to you because of the mass resistance of our people and the unceasing solidarity of millions throughout the world.

The kinship that the ANC feels for the people of Harlem goes deeper than skin color.

At the turning of this century, W. E. B. DuBois, with great foresight, predicted that “the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”