The Other Wes Moore Part 1 Vocabulary

to move, lie, or extend in different directions from a common point; branch off.

• Tentative

• Diverge

• Ponder

• Diaspora

unsure; uncertain; not definite or positive; hesitant

• Tentative

• Mollified

• Perpetual

• Apartheid

any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland, especially involuntarily, as Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

• Diaspora

• Apartheid

• Mollified

• Bemusement

having been pacified or appeased, or showing appeasement

• Diverge

• Ponder

• Heinous

• Mollified

any system or practice that separates people according to color, ethnicity, caste, etc.

• Apartheid

• Perpetual

• Heinous

• Tentative

hateful; odious; abominable; totally reprehensible

• Apartheid

• Heinous

• Ponder

• Perpetual

to cause to be mildly amused, especially in a detached way

• Mollified

• Heinous

• Quell

• Bemusement

to weigh carefully in the mind; consider thoughtfully

• Mollified

• Ponder

• Diaspora

• Heinous

to suppress; put an end to; extinguish

• Apartheid

• Diverge

• Quell

• Perpetual

continuing or continued without intermission or interruption; ceaseless

• Quell

• Bemusement

• Perpetual

• Diverge