Raisin in the Sun vocab

Question 1

Undistinguished

Answer 1

(adj) common; nothing special

Question 2

Pretense

Answer 2

pretending or feigning; make-believe; a false show of something, “All pretenses but living itself have long since vanished from the very atmosphere of this room” (24).

Question 3

Exasperated

Answer 3

adj) irritated; provoked; irked

Question 4

Viciously

Answer 4

(adv) with violence or fury

Question 5

Sullen

Answer 5

(adj) showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve (29)
“(With sullen politeness)” (29).

Question 6

Vindicated

Answer 6

cleared of accusation, blame, or doubt (30)
“Knowing the mood has changed and he is vindicated” (30).

Question 7

Proposition

Answer 7

(n) a suggested plan

Question 8

Vengence

Answer 8

(n) revenge

Question 9

Tentativly

Answer 9

(adv) uncertainly

Question 10

Furtively

Answer 10

(adv) stealthily; in a way that hides motive

Question 11

Futile

Answer 11

(adv) stealthily; in a way that hides motive

Question 12

Tyrant

Answer 12

n) dictator; harsh ruler

Question 13

Forlonly

Answer 13

(adv) pitifully; desperately; hopelessly

Question 14

Mutilated

Answer 14

(adj) maimed; damaged

Question 15

Assimilationism

Answer 15

(n) belief that minority cultures should be absorbed into a dominant culture

Question 16

Insinuatingly

Answer 16

(adv) with more meaning than is spoken; implied

Question 17

Haphazardly

Answer 17

(adv) carelessly

Question 18

Arrogant

Answer 18

(adj) proud; haughty

Question 19

Eccentric

Answer 19

(adj) deviating from the norm; strange

Question 20

Oppresive

Answer 20

(adj) tyrannical

Question 21

Cliche

Answer 21

(n) trite or overused expression or idea

Question 22

Plaintitivly

Answer 22

(adv) sorrowfully; pathetically

Question 23

Menacingly

Answer 23

(adv) threateningly

Question 24

Exuberant

Answer 24

(adj) marked by unrestrained enthusiasm (93)
“…exuberant, almost terfully happy release ” (93).

Question 25

Persumably

Answer 25

probably; reasonably supposed

Question 26

Rebuff

Answer 26

(n) blunt refusal

Question 27

Revelation

Answer 27

(n) new information

Question 28

Amiably

Answer 28

(adv) good-naturedly

Question 29

Ludicrous

Answer 29

(adj) ridiculous

Question 30

Ominous

Answer 30

(adj) menacing; threatening

Question 31

Plunder

Answer 31

(v) to rob; to loot

Question 32

Wrought

Answer 32

(v) shaped; made (137) “Just look at what the new world has wrought” (137).

Question 33

Monolouge

Answer 33

(n) long speech by one person

Question 34

Eccentricity

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Epitaph

Answer 35

(n) inscription on a tombstone (145) “You done wrote his epitaph”

Question 36

Amid

Answer 36

(adv) among; in the midst of