Black History Month: Notes of a Native Son

by James Baldwin

In this collection of essays, Baldwin explores literature and film, life in Harlem, his experiences as an expatriate in Paris, and more.

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VOCABULARY LISTS IN THIS COLLECTION:

"Everybody’s Protest Novel"

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- glib
- spurn
- lurid
- ostentatious
- spurious
- laudable
- loath
- lop
- forbearing
- mortification
- temporal
- divest
- decadence
- nicety
- insuperable
- ramify
- evanescent
- ensconce
- lofty
- vacuity
- dictum
- implacable
- bequeath
- tableau
- exhortation
"Many Thousands Gone"

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- estrangement
- athwart
- annulment
- absolution
- piquant
- conjecture
- forswear
- avail
- innocuous
- hitherto
- wherewithal
- extol
- squalid
- tenement
- revelatory
- crony
- apprehend
- cajole
- benighted
- perverse
- contemptible
- manifest
- precipitate
- rhetoric
- herald
- exploit
- strident
- forebear
- acquiesce
- debasement
"Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough"

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- lexicon
- implicit
- repudiate
- sacrosanct
- inertia
- wry
- pernicious
- solemnity
- inhibition
- exigency
- disparate
- aria
- timorous
- flounce
- ferment
"The Harlem Ghetto" and "Journey to Atlanta"

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- pervade
- inception
- underscore
- render
- chauvinism
- axiomatic
- august
- infidel
- deliverance
- tribulation
- disarming
- artless
- castigate
- vindicate
- commonwealth
- tenable
- imbue
- appellation
- efface
- ken
- ostensibly
- flippant
- auspices
- laconic
- canvass
- clandestine
- retrench
- folksy
- temporize
- plebeian
"Notes of a Native Son"

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- dissonant
- coda
- intransigence
- chagrin
- asperity
- tactless
- perdition
- enmity
- imprecation
- contrive
- predilection
- rebuff
- sardonic
- intercession
- derisive
- hobnob
- flagrant
- complicity
- reverie
- querulous
- conciliatory
- incontrovertible
- corroboration
- potency
- schism
- equivocate
- concerted
- complacent
- gratuitous
- intimation
"Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" and "A Question of Identity"

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- excoriate
- galling
- ambivalence
- sojourn
- privation
- maudlin
- predicate
- tarry
- sordid
- vagary
- revenant
- penurious
- jingoism
- eschew
- patent
- vaunt
- platitude
- coterie
- bohemian
- evangelical
"Equal in Paris" and "Stranger in the Village"

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- louche
- vicissitude
- pique
- cuckold
- elicit
- pallid
- chalet
- solicitude
- graft
- dissemble
- recourse
- hazard
- overture
- metier
- epithet
- tenuous
- bulwark
- rationalization
- concession
- heretic