A Raisin In The Sun: Vocab Words English 9H

Question 1

undistinguished

Answer 1

1. undistinguished (adj) common; nothing special (23)
   The younger living room would be a comfortable and well ordered room if it were not for a member of instruction to go on traditions to the state of being. Its furnishings are typical and undistinguished and their primary feature now is that they have clearly had to accommodate the living up to many people for too many years and they are tired.

Question 2

pretense

Answer 2

pretense (n) pretending or feigning; make-believe; a false show of something (24)
All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room more over a section of this room for it is not really a room into itself, though the landlords lease would make it seem so, slopes backward to provide a small kitchen area, where the family prefers the meals that are eating in the living room proper, which also serves as dining room.

Question 3

exasperated

Answer 3

exasperated (adj) irritated; provoked; irked (28)
Ruth : hush up now and just eat (the boy gives her an exasperated look for her lack of understanding, and eats grudgingly)

Question 4

viciously

Answer 4

viciously (adv) with violence or fury (29)
Ruth; just hush, I said. (Travis jabs his spoon into his cereal bowl viciously, and rests his head in anger upon his fists)

Question 5

sullen

Answer 5

sullen (adj) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve (29)
Travis: (with sullen politeness) yes’m

Question 6

vindicated

Answer 6

vindicated (v) cleared of accusation, blame, or doubt (30)
“I wouldn’t kiss that woman goodbye for nothing in this world this morning! (the boy finally turns around and rolls his eyes at her, knowing the mood has changed and he is vindicated; he does not, however, move toward her yet) Not for nothing in this world!” (30).

Question 7

proposition

Answer 7

proposition (n) a suggested plan (33)
“This ain’t no fly-by-night proposition, baby. I mean we figured it out, me and Willy and Bobo” (33).

Question 8

vengeance

Answer 8

vengeance (n) revenge (35)
“She sees that it has been lost to the Johnsons. She closes the door with a sleepy vengeance and crosses the table and sits down a little defeated” (35).

Question 9

tentatively

Answer 9

tentatively (adv) uncertainly (44)
“Looks at Ruth a little tentatively” (44).

Question 10

furtively

Answer 10

furtively (adv) stealthily; in a way that hides motive (44)
“Studying her mother in law furtively”(44).

Question 11

futile

Answer 11

futile (adj) useless (45)
“Dropping her hands in a futile gesture”(45).

Question 12

tyrant

Answer 12

tyrant (n) dictator; harsh ruler (52)
“I also see that everyone thinks it’s all right for Mama to be a tyrant”(52).

Question 13

forlornly

Answer 13

forlornly (adv) pitifully; desperately; hopelessly (57)
“Ruth comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection”(57).

Question 14

mutilated

Answer 14

mutilated (adj) maimed; damaged (61)
“You wear it well… very well… mutilated hair and all”(61).

Question 15

assimilationism

Answer 15

assimilationism (n) belief that minority cultures should be absorbed into a dominant culture (63)
“Assimilation is so popular in your country”(63).

Question 16

insinuatingly

Answer 16

insinuatingly (adv) with more meaning than is spoken; implied (66)
“Lord, that’s a pretty thing just went out here! (insinuatingly, to her daughter)”(66).

Question 17

haphazardly

Answer 17

17. haphazardly (adv) carelessly (66)

“She sets the headdress on haphazardly”(66).

Question 18

arrogant

Answer 18

arrogant (adj) proud; haughty (76)
“She promenades to the radio, and with an arrogant flourish”(76).

Question 19

eccentric

Answer 19

eccentric (adj) deviating from the norm; strange (80)

“How can something that’s natural be eccentric”(80).

Question 20

oppressive

Answer 20

oppressive (adj) tyrannical (81)
“And in this case, an oppressive culture”(81).

Question 21

cliché

Answer 21

cliché (n) trite or overused expression or idea (82)
“She smiles happily at this cliche of cliches”(82).

Question 22

plaintively

Answer 22

plaintively (adv) sorrowfully; pathetically (86)
“(plaintively) Walter Lee - why don’t we just try to talk about it?”(86).

Question 23

menacingly

Answer 23

menacingly (adv) threateningly (90)
“Mama clamps her lips together, and Ruth advances towards her son menacingly”(90).

Question 24

exuberant

Answer 24

exuberant (adj) marked by unrestrained enthusiasm (93)
“As she starts to circle the room with an exuberant, almost tearfully happy release”(93).

Question 25

presumably

Answer 25

presumably (adv) probably; reasonably supposed (96)
“Beneatha and George come in, presumably from an evening out again” (96).

Question 26

rebuff

Answer 26

rebuff (n) blunt refusal (96)
“He starts to kiss her, she rebuffs him again and he jumps up” (96).

Question 27

revelation

Answer 27

revelation (n) new information (91, 105)
“The explosion comes from Walter at the end of the revelation and he jumps up and turns away from all of them in a fury” (91)

Question 28

amiably

Answer 28

amiably (adv) good-naturedly (114)
“Walter (Amiably, as he sits himself easily on a chair, leaning forward on his knees with interest and looking expectantly into the newcomer’s face)” (114).

Question 29

ludicrous

Answer 29

ludicrous (adj) ridiculous (124)
“she pops it on her head to prove it to her grandson, and that hat is ludicrous and considerably oversized” (124).

Question 30

ominous

Answer 30

ominous (adj) menacing; threatening (131)
“By now the almost ominous packing crates”(131).

Question 31

plunder

Answer 31

plunder (v) to rob; to loot (134)
“What about all the crooks and thieves who come into power and steal and plunder”(134).

Question 32

wrought

Answer 32

wrought (v) shaped; made (137)
“So this is what the new world has finally wrought”(137).

Question 33

monologue

Answer 33

monologue (n) long speech by one person (138)
“And goes on with a monologue of insult”(138).

Question 34

eccentricity

Answer 34

eccentricity (n) quality of being strange or unusual in behavior (138)
“Beneatha ignores the eccentricity of his actions”(138).

Question 35

epitaph

Answer 35

epitaph (n) inscription on a tombstone (145)
“You done wrote this epitaph to”(145).

Question 36

amid

Answer 36

amid (adv) among; in the midst of (149)
“She flies to get it amid the general bustling of the family”(149).