A Raisin in the Sun Vocab: 1st Half of Act I Scene 1

To spread or diffuse throughout every part of a person, place, or thing; to pervade or saturate something.

• permeate

• percolate

• perseverate

• permanent

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

The acquisition of money or other benefits through illegal or dishonest means, such as bribery or the allocation of public funds to benefit private interests.

• economics

• appropriation

• graft

• debt

Unusually stiff, inflexible, or resistant to change.

• pliability

• rigidity

• malleability

• ductility

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

Done in an unwilling or reluctant manner.

• joyously

• enthusiastically

• grudgingly

• sarcastically

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

The state of being exhausted or very tired; lacking energy, strength, or freshness.

• wantonness

• wariness

• weariness

• worry

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

Punishment inflicted in retaliation for a previous injury or offense; retribution or revenge.

• variation

• reward

• recompense

• vengeance

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

A person hired as a private driver; a person whose job is to drive people around in a car.

• custodian

• chauffeur

• secretary

• janitor

Done in a lifeless, impersonal, or robotic manner; done as if one were a machine, detached from one's mind or emotions.

• malevolently

• malignly

• morally

• mechanically

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

Showing feelings of extreme irritation or annoyance.

• exasperated

• exhausted

• excommunicated

• exonerated

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

To make room for; to provide with a place to stay or sleep.

• accommodate

• atrophy

• attenuate

• accentuate

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CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.4A