I know why the caged bird sings Vocab

Question 1

inequity

Answer 1

n. (not equal) lack of fairness or justice: unfairness, injustice

Question 2

blasphemous

Answer 2

adj. sacrilegious against something holy: sacrilegious, profane, irrelevant

Question 3

placate

Answer 3

v. make someone less angry (appease, pacify, mollify, assuage)

Question 4

onerous

Answer 4

adj, hard, burdensome, laborious

Question 5

dirge

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n. a funeral song

Question 6

imperious

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(imperial) adj. feeling high and mighty like a king: peremptory.

Question 7

arduous

Answer 7

(hard) adj. extremely difficult involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring, onerous.

Question 8

mollify

Answer 8

to placate, to appease, to make to feel better.

Question 9

colloquial

Answer 9

slang

Question 10

cajole

Answer 10

convince through flattery, wheedle

Question 11

bedizen

Answer 11

dressed up or adorned gaudily.

Question 12

magnanimous

Answer 12

(magnificent) adj. generous, beneficent, possessing a generosity of spirit

Question 13

reprieve –

Answer 13

v. to give relief for a time, a momentary pause, cancel/ postponement of a punishment: respite, pardon, respite.

Question 14

presentiment

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n. a premonition, a feeling something will happen, foreboding, hunch.

Question 15

15. impertinence

Answer 15

n. rudeness, disrespectful

Question 16

blithe

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adj. happy or joyous

Question 17

enigma

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mysterious

Question 18

marauding

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v/adj going in search of things to steal or people to attack and take goods, violent: pugnacious

Question 19

indignation

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n righteous anger, anger at something unjust: distress, displeasure

Question 20

perverse

Answer 20

adj, corrupted, twisted contrary to accepted behavior: awkward, contrary