A Raisin In The Sun - Essential Vocabulary - 12

Question 1

Ominous -

Answer 1

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious.

Question 2

Idealist -

Answer 2

a person who is guided more by ideals than by practical considerations.

Question 3

Mirage -

Answer 3

an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air.

Question 4

Realist -

Answer 4

a person who accepts a situation as it is and is prepared to deal with it accordingly.

Question 5

Martyr -

Answer 5

a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.

Question 6

Replenish -

Answer 6

fill (something) up again.

Question 7

Eccentricity -

Answer 7

(of a person or their behavior) unconventional and slightly strange.

Question 8

Epitaph -

Answer 8

a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.

Question 9

Reverie -

Answer 9

a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream.

Question 10

Precariously -

Answer 10

in a way that is not securely in position and is likely to fall or collapse.