Claudette Colvin Vocabulary

The reason or cause that prompts someone to do something; the condition of being excited or passionate about what you are doing

• motivation

• segregation

• verbals

• exasperated

Annoyed or highly irritated

• embolden

• exasperated

• hypocrisy

• rebellion

legal, forced separation of people or communities based on race

• gerund

• turning point

• segregation

• revolution

verb forms that function as different parts of speech, like a noun, adjective, or adverb

• gerund

• infinitive

• participle

• verbal

verbal that acts as a noun; ends in -ing

• gerund

• infinitive

• past participle

• integrity

To strengthen the resolve or encourage

• embolden

• bias

• integrity

• justice

Causing a loss of self-respect; humiliating

• revolution

• rebellion

• hypocrisy

• degrading

Talking about or stating a belief in ideas, values, or truths when in reality a person does not believe in these things

• turning point

• hypocrisy

• bias

• integrity

A massive change in beliefs and approaches of doing things, or the transformation that is a result of a major upheaval

• rebellion

• revolution

• justice

• participle

1) Fairness, equality, or moral righteousness;2) The fulfillment of the law

• integrity

• rebellion

• infinitive

• justice