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122 - Vocabulary
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to achieve to
end / to realise
a Negro a
derogatory term / a very offensive term
therefore consequently
/ unless
among the reasons one
of the reasons why / despite
lynching to
hang without a trial / to kill after a judgement
to lay away savings to
save money / to waste money
a store a
shop / a car
to funnel stories to
spread rumours / to hide things
beliefs what
you believe in / people who believe
a threat a
menace / a fear
a hate group philanthropists
/ followers of the Ku Klux Klan
black robes black
clothes / black thieves
to revile to
live again / to insult
an uppity person a
member of the upper class / a presumptuous person
to spread to
eradicate / to develop
unrest agitation
/ hard work
dissension discord
/ harmony
pregnant expecting
a baby / very busy
a vivid memory clear
and detailed / faint and distant
to snatch to
hit / to seize, to grab
to set a fire to
start a fire / to put out a fire
to lunge to
move suddenly and clumsily / to breathe deeply
to bump into to
bang into, to hit / to keep away from
to tumble to
dance / to fall
the yard the
courtyard / the equivalent of the FBI
sparks tiny
pieces of burning material / public areas with grass and trees in town
underwear the
clothes you never wear / the clothes you wear next to your skin
to yell to
agree / to shout loudly
to drop by to
pay a visit / to throw things at
to shove things around to
move things / to search
to check to
verify / to agitate
to hug to
embrace / to kiss
to clutch to
hold tightly / to fight
to scream to
make a loud, high-pitched cry / to shed tears
I scrambled out I
left my bed hurriedly / I walked slowly to the door
a sheet a
piece of cotton / an X-ray
the skull was crushed in his
head was damaged / he had a few bruises
to whisper to
say something very quietly / to shout
tracks rails
/ pamphlets
a streetcar a
tram / a taxi
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agitation, trouble
crier, hurler
des menaces
des sous-vêtements
discorde, dissension
étreindre
étreindre, serrer dans ses bras
faire un mouvement brusque vers l'avant
faire une chute, tomber, trébucher
heurter, se cogner contre
hurler
injurier, insulter, proférer des injures
la cour
le crâne
murmurer
mettre de côté, épargner
par conséquent, donc
parmi
pousser, déplacer
répandre
saisir, attraper
un drap / un linceul
un souvenir
un tramway
une étincelle
une robe / une toge