Letter from Birmingham Jail Vocab Part A

Provincial means...

• with no reason or purpose

• sparkling or shining brightly

• concerned only with local issues; small-minded

• a strained state from two forces acting against each other

Imagine you're at a party and you overhear Daniel saying to Anika, 'If I am cognizant of your plans, I can help you'. What do you think Daniel means?

• know about them

• have forgotten them

• can't spell them

• don't like them

To deplore most nearly means to:

• beg

• tell a story

• hate something

• release

Imagine Kai, Mason, and Nora are playing a trivia game. Kai pulls out a card and reads, 'The state of Nevada declared a(n) ______ on the death penalty until it could conduct studies on its effectiveness.' What word completes the sentence?

• estrangement

• moratorium

• devotee

• ideology

A student's unfettered curiosity might lead them to:

• strive for the highest GPA possible

• refuse to work with other students

• be reluctant to learn new things

• seek out more information on a subject

If, as King notes, segregation "relegat[es] persons to the status of things," it:

• makes them more important than things

• assigns them an insignificant status

• causes them to think of themselves as objects

• forces them to work together

Mr. Johnson is like a gadfly in the hallway because he:

• inconveniences students to get them to class on time

• has many friends who come by to say hello

• never sends rude students to ISS

• sends his least favorite students to ISS

King says that all Americans are "tied in a single garment of destiny" and that "whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." The best word for this idea is

• triviality

• conviviality

• mutuality

• futility

Query most nearly means

• a fact

• an opinion

• a rumor

• a question

Rohan, William, and Maya are playing a word game. Rohan picked the word Futility. Can you help Maya guess what it most nearly means?

• Uselessness

• Significance

• Relevance

• Efficiency