Unit 2: Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Chapters 1–6

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  1. heritage
    practices that are handed down from the past by tradition
  2. sustain
    supply with necessities and support
  3. exasperation
    a feeling of annoyance
  4. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
  5. underhanded
    marked by deception
  6. humiliation
    strong feelings of embarrassment
  7. embitter
    cause to be resentful
  8. coddle
    treat with excessive indulgence
  9. gully
    a deep ditch cut by running water
  10. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
  11. feign
    give a false appearance of
  12. haughty
    having or showing arrogant superiority
  13. yonder
    in an indicated distant place
  14. woeful
    affected by or full of grief or sadness
  15. subtle
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
  16. subdue
    hold within limits and control
  17. bunion
    a painful swelling of the bursa of the first joint of the big toe
  18. mercantile
    relating to or characteristic of trade or traders
  19. recoil
    draw back, as with fear or pain
  20. aloofness
    indifference by personal withdrawal
Created on Fri Nov 06 16:10:42 EST 2020 (updated Wed Nov 11 13:36:51 EST 2020)

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