ACT ONE

1. It's furnishings are typical and  undistinguished.

Something that isn’t very clarified

- lacking distinction; unexceptional.
- Adjective
- Ordinary, Average
                                                                          

2. The boy gives her an exasperated  look for her lack of understanding and eats
grudgingly.
A very over-dramatic act
- intensely irritated and frustrated.
-adjective
- irritate, annoy
                                                                                                                                                          
3. Travis jabs his spoon into his cereal bowl viciously...
Very aggressive
- in a cruel or violent manner.
- Adverb
- Brutally, maliciously
                                                                          

4. ..the mood has changed and he is  vindicated, he does not, however move toward
her
Not sure whether you should do something
- clear (someone) of blame or suspicion.
- Verb
- Clear, discharge
                                                                          

5.  This ain't no fly-by-night- proposition, baby. I mean we figured it out.

Situation
- a statement or assertion that expresses a judgment or opinion./ a suggestion or a plan
- Noun
- Theory, idea
                                                                          

6. She closes the door with a sleepy vengeance and crosses to the table and sits down
a little defeated.
Weak
- punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
- Noun
 - Revenge, retaliation
                                                                          

7. She waits several seconds, trying to make up her mind about something, and looks
at Ruth a little tentatively.
Very focused
- in a way that lacks confidence; hesitantly.
- Adverb
- Indefinite, uncertain
                                                                          

8. Studying her mother-in-law furtively and concentrating on her ironing...

Thoroughly
- in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention; secretively.
- Adverb
- Secretly, surreptitiously
                                                                          

9. Dropping her hands in a futile gesture..

Mean
- incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.
- Adjective
- Pointless, useless

                                                                             

10. Everybody thinks it's all right for Mama to be a tyrant.

Desperate
- a cruel and oppressive ruler.
- Noun
- Ruler, operation

11. The radio is on and a Southside disk-jockey program is inappropriately filling the

house with a rather exotic saxophone blues
-in a way that is not fit or proper for the situation.

- in a manner that is not suitable or proper in the circumstances.

-Adverb

12. You mean save them from heathenism.

-  a belief or practice of heathens; idolatry

- a pagan belief or practice; idolatrous

- Noun

13. Ruth comes in forlornly and pulls off her coat with dejection.
-  full of regret, loneliness, and even hopelessness.

- regret, sadness, and even desperation.

- Adverb

14. You wear it well...very well...mutilated hair and all.

inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on inflict a violent and disfiguring injury on

cause a serious and disfiguring harm to

--Verb
15. Assimilationism is so popular in your country.
the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.

the method of taking in and thoroughly understanding information or concepts.

-Noun

16. Insinuatingly to her daughter.

- hinting at something bad in an indirect and unpleasant way.

pointing to something undesirable in an oblique and unpleasant way.

-Adjective
17. She sets the headdress on haphazardly.

Previous
lacking any obvious principle of organization.
There is no evident organizational principle.
-Adjective

ACT 2
SCENE 1 VOCAB

18. “She is coquettishly fanning herself with an ornate oriental fan…” (Hansberry 76).
- in a way that tries to attract attention by pretending to be sexually interested in
someone, in a pleasant but not serious way
- AVERB

19. “GEORGE Oh, don’t be so proud of yourself, Bennie-just because you look eccentric”
(Hansberry 80).

- (of a person or their behavior) unconventional and slightly strange.

- ADJECTIVE

20. “WALTER No, I don’t want no coffee. I don’t want nothing hot to drink. (Almost plaintively)
Why you always trying to give me something to eat?” (Hansberry 88).

- sounding sad and mournful.

- ADJECTIVE

21. “RUTH Keep out of it now, Lena. (MAMA clamps her lips together, and RUTH advances toward
her son menacingly)” (Hansberry 90).

- in a way that suggests the presence of danger; threateningly.

- ADVERB

SCENE 2 VOCAB

22. “BENEATHA and GEORGE come in, presumably from an evening out again” (Hansberry 96).

- used to convey that what is asserted is very likely though not known for certain.
- ADVERB

23. “(He starts to kiss her; she rebuffs him again and he jumps up)” (Hansberry 96).

- reject (someone or something) in an abrupt or ungracious manner.

- VERB

24. “The explosion comes from WALTER at the end of the revelation, and he jumps up and turns
away from all of them in a fury” (Hansberry 91).

- a surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a
dramatic way.
 - NOUN

25. “GEORGE Because this is stupid! I don’t go out with you to discuss the nature of “quiet
desperation” or to hear all about your thoughts-” (Hansberry 96-97).

- a state of despair, typically one which results in rash or extreme behavior.

- NOUN

26. “WALTER enters with a large package. His happiness is deep in him; he cannot keep still with
his newfound exuberance” (Hansberry 112).

- the quality of being full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness; ebullience.

- NOUN

27. “WALTER (Amiably, as he sits himself easily on a chair, leaning forward on his knees with
interest and looking expectantly into the newcomer’s face)” (Hansberry 114).

- in a friendly and pleasant manner.

- ADVERB

28. “(She pops it on her head to prove it to her grandson, and the hat is ludicrous and considerably
over-sized)” (Hansberry 124).

- so foolish, unreasonable, or out of place as to be amusing; ridiculous.

- ADJECTIVE

ACT 3 VOCAB

33. In the living room Beneatha sits at the table, still surrounded by the now
almost ominous packing
 carts.
-I think it mean a lot or familiar
-giving the impression that something bad or  unpleasant  is going to happen; threatening;
inauspicious.

- ADJECTIVE

- Under my bed is ominously dark

34. Already, and after such a small defeat, you are worshipping despair.
- Sorrow or the loss of hope.
- the complete loss or absence of hope.
- NOUN

- When I lost the race, I felt a lot of despair that id never win.

35. What about all the crooks and petty thieves and just plain idiots who will come into
power to steal
 and plunder the same as before.
To gain or to heard of before
-steal goods from (a place or person), typically using force and in a time of war or civil disorder.
-Verb

Ethiopia was being plunder by the Italians

36. "Ah-so this is what the New World hath finally wrought..."

The is the outcome or result of something
1. - archaic past and past participle of work.

-Verb
The snow wrought the state of Virginia
37. Beneatha ignores the eccentricity of his actions and goes on with the monologue of
insult.
Plan or scenario of something.
- a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.
-Noun

- As the curtains open the main character’s monologue starts.

38. The word "Man" has penetrated his consciousness; he mumbles...

Something that has made a dent
- succeed in forcing a way into or through (a thing).
-Verb

-When I was little I fell and penetrated my forehead.

39. You give him up for me? You done wrote his epitaph too-...
-someone’s desire
a phrase or form of words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription
on a tombstone.

Noun

While im talking sometimes I have a epitaph of the word my grandpa would sometimes would say.

40. She flies to get it amid the general bustling of the family.

Right away asap
- surrounded by; in the middle of.
-preposition or verb

- It was hard to hear amid from all the noise from the cafeteria.