Red Scarf Girl Vocabulary

push, elbow, bump against (someone) roughly, typically in a crowd

• tanalizing

• jostling

• craning

• listlessly

having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way

• pernicious

• paradox

• contemplate

• denounce

the capitalist class who own most of society's wealth and means of production

• denounce

• pernicious

• bourgeoisie

• paradox

lacking energy or enthusiasm

• craning

• jostling

• tantalizing

• listlessly

teasing, tormenting

• tantalizing

• jostling

• craning

• festooned

to consider carefully and thoughtfully

• bourgeoisie

• listlessly

• contemplate

• jostling

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

• paradox

• pernicious

• festooned

• bourgeoisie

stretch out one's body or neck in order to see something

• listlessly

• denounce

• contemplate

• craning

publicly declare to be wrong or evil

• festooned

• contemplate

• paradox

• denounce

adorn (a place) with ribbons, garlands, or other decorations

• denounce

• festooned

• pernicious

• tantalizing