Thank You Mam- Vocab

The large woman simply tuned around and kicked him right squared in his blue-jeaned ________________

• behind.

• sitter.

• pants.

• jacket.

1.     “I want a pair of blue ______________ shoes,” said the boy.

• leather

• Nike

• dance

• suede

1.     “He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, _________________ and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans.”

• skinny

• scared

• frail

• mean

1.     Langston Hughes was a ________________ writer, playing a vital role writing many stories taking place in the Harlem Renaissance.

• prolific

• talented

• terrible

• productive

1.     “The woman was sitting on the __________________.”

• easy chair

• day bed

• counter top

• magic carpet

1.     “Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a ____________________ about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street.”

• scarf

• half-nelson

• hug

• bowtie

1.     In the 1950’s, Harlem was a ____________________ African-American district in New York City.

• predominantly

• prefabricated

• pretend

• prematurely

1.     Mrs. Jones ___________ the young man and confronts him after he attempted to steal her purse.

• high-fives

• screams at

• seizes

• stops

What part of speech is "seizes"

• noun

• verb

• pronoun

• adverb

What part of speech is "prolific"?

• adverb

• adjective

• pronoun

• noun