A Raisin in the Sun: Act III Vocabulary

An inscription on a tomb to memorialize a dead person.

• Epistle

• Epitaph

• Element

• Epiphany

To feel a strong dislike or scorn for someone or something; to look down on someone as being unworthy of respect.

• Despise

• Praise

• Laud

• Extol

Real and tangible; pertaining to the immediate experiences of actual people, places, and things; not abstract or theoretical.

• Conceptual

• Ephemeral

• Concrete

• Myriad

To crawl or cower in a way that shows submission or subservience to another; to behave in an abject or servile manner.

• Genuflect

• Display

• Despise

• Grovel

To suffer from ill health, to be sick; to cause physical or emotional pain.

• Ail

• Soothe

• Tranquilize

• Wellness

A person who starts a business.

• Entrepreneur

• Employee

• Employer

• Element

An optical illusion, such as a pool of water in the desert, that appears to be real but is not actually there; an illusory dream or unobtainable vision.

• Mirror

• Mirage

• Myriad

• Mystical

The forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• Trail of Tears

• Holocaust

• Civil War

• Middle Passage

No longer fashionable or stylish; no longer useful; outdated or obsolete.

• Outcome

• Outclassed

• Outmoded

• Outer

Someone who is motivated by an ideal vision of how things could be rather than by practical considerations; a utopian visionary or starry-eyed romantic.

• Idealist

• Realist

• Pragmatist

• Ideologue