Brown Girl Dreaming Vocab (Unit 1: Childhood)

spongy, cushioned feeling when walking on a flexible surface

• humming

• squish

• feathery

• twirl

singing with closed lips and without words

• humming

• twist

• shushes

• squish

wind or spin around one another

• feathery

• humming

• twist

• shushes

turn around and around quickly

• shushes

• humming

• squish

• twirl

tells or signals for someone to be quiet

• humming

• shushes

• twirl

• feathery

light and airy, like the touch of a feather

• twirl

• twist

• humming

• feathery