Black History Month Vocabulary

bold means

• afraid of what might happen

• ready to take risks; showing no fear.

• nervous to make a decision

• overwhelmed by the amount of options

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

compassion means

• a feeling of sharing the suffering of others and of wanting to help

• harming yourself or someone else

• using inappropriate words

• ignoring someone when they need help

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

confident means

• jealous

• insecure of oneself

• inconsolable

• sure of oneself

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

courage means

• unsure what to do in a situation

• the ability to do something scary or dangerous

• the feeling of dread

• a company that produces buses

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

determination means

• the feeling of fear or freight

• truly what something is said to be; authentic

• the quality of deciding firmly to do something and pursuing it even though it is difficult

• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

guard means

• to rent land, a house or apartment

• a person who commits robbery

• a low-ranking soldier or worker

• a person whose job it is to watch or protect people and property

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

integrate means

• come between so as to prevent or alter a result or course of events

• to help people in minority groups have equal access to spaces and opportunities as everyone else; to desegregate

• the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

• an institution for educating children

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

mob means

• a large disorderly crowd of people, especially those who are angry or excited

• a characteristic mode of expression in music or art

• free from darkness, obscurity, or cloudiness; light

• the state or quality of being obscure

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

segregate means

• pertaining to or dealing with morals or the principles of morality; pertaining to right and wrong in conduct

• an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute

• the act, process or policy of separating people of different races, sexes, religions, etc

• the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Supreme Court is

• having the function of making laws

• the highest court in the United States

• an assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation

• a law, rule, or other order prescribed by authority, especially to regulate conduct

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D