The Watsons Go To Birmingham Vocabulary

Which word means “at the top of”?

• Peon

• Pinnacle

• Pan

• Pomade

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A backup or support would be called a

• Pervasive

• Raggedy

• Reinforcement

• Picketing

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

During the Civil Rights movement, the Jim Crow Laws were established to ensure that blacks and whites were

• Strangling

• Pinnacled

• Segregated

• Slew

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The condition of being spread out or scattered

• peninsula

• gather

• dispersal

• crowd

To bully or threaten

• Protect

• Surprise someone

• Intimidate

• Bystander

To shake rapidly or tremble

• Flutter

• Vittles

• Flypaper

• Tremble

Change

• incapable

• vittles'

• pinnacle

• amended

Encourage someone or something

• Conscience

• Assure

• Boycott

• Bully

Listening secretly

• Eavesdropping

• Emulate

• Enhance

• Executioner

Grinding of teeth, as in anger

• Grapevine

• Executioner

• Gnashing

• Enhance