for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf: List 3

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. oblivion
    the state of being disregarded or forgotten
  2. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  3. abstract
    dealing with a subject without a practical purpose
  4. sheer
    complete and without restriction
  5. sensual
    marked by the appetites and passions of the body
  6. audacity
    aggressive or outright boldness
  7. intimacy
    a feeling of being close and belonging together
  8. metaphysical
    pertaining to the philosophical study of being and knowing
  9. sanctify
    render holy by means of religious rites
  10. kleptomaniac
    someone with an irrational urge to steal
  11. whimsical
    indulging in or influenced by the imagination
  12. plantain
    starchy banana-like fruit
  13. prerogative
    a right reserved exclusively by a person or group
  14. inadequacy
    unsatisfactoriness by virtue of lacking necessary qualities
  15. vulnerability
    the state of being exposed to harm
  16. remedial
    tending or intended to rectify or improve
  17. bodega
    small shop selling groceries, especially in a Hispanic area
  18. leper
    a pariah who is avoided by others
  19. humble
    marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
  20. coax
    influence or persuade by gentle and persistent urging
Created on Wed Mar 11 10:56:55 EDT 2020 (updated Wed Mar 11 11:10:17 EDT 2020)

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