Born a crime ch.1-3 vocab

Question 1

Faction

Answer 1

a dissenting clique

Question 2

Futility

Answer 2

uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result

Question 3

Catharsis

Answer 3

purging of emotional tensions

Question 4

Encompass

Answer 4

include in scope

Question 5

Harangue

Answer 5

a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

Question 6

Rebuke

Answer 6

an act or expression of criticism and censure

Question 7

Quell

Answer 7

suppress or crush completely

Question 8

Contrive

Answer 8

make or work out a plan for; devise

Question 9

Prodigal

Answer 9

recklessly wasteful

Question 10

Boisterous

Answer 10

marked by exuberance and high spirits

Question 11

Afrikaners

Answer 11

descendants of Dutch settlers, ran the apartheid government

Question 12

Afrikaans

Answer 12

predominant language among South African Afrikaners, version of Dutch brought by settler colonist

Question 13

Apartheid

Answer 13

white supremacist legal system in place under the Afrikaner government, separated blacks from whites

Question 14

Bantustans/Homelands

Answer 14

Isolated rural areas to which the apartheid government deported urban South African blacks, separated ethnic groups

Question 15

Xhosa

Answer 15

One of South Africa’s two largest ethnic groups with Zulu, Trevor’s family is Xhosa, Zulu were fighters Xhosa were negotiators

Question 16

Zulu

Answer 16

predominant in the Inkatha Freedom Party, most militant opponents of colonialism.