The Hate U Give - Vocabulary - First Set

bougie

• concern for wealth, possessions, and respectability :

• floral arrangement

ambitious

• rude

• having a strong desire for success or achievement

assimilation

• the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another

• putting together unlike objects

protagonist

• main character

• in favor of something

antagonist

• severe agony

• A character or force in conflict with the main character

setting

• The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs

• to set in stone; not movable

theme

• the central idea of a story

• adventure park

plot

• Sequence of events in a story

• to be critical of a peer

harmonious

• small musical instrument you can hold in your hand

• Able to get along together well

placid

• calm, peaceful

• body of water in upstate New York