A Raisin in the Sun Act III Vocabulary

To suffer from ill health, to be sick; to cause physical or emotional pain.

• flourish

• ail

• thrive

• comfort

An inscription on a tomb to memorialize a dead person.

• epitaph

• epilogue

• epic

• eponym

Real and tangible; pertaining to the immediate experiences of actual people, places, and things; not abstract or theoretical.

• intellectual

• obscure

• abstruse

• concrete

To feel a strong dislike or scorn for someone or something; to look down on someone as being unworthy of respect.

• praise

• admire

• despise

• laud

An optical illusion, such as a pool of water in the desert, that appears to be real but is not actually there; an illusory dream or unobtainable vision.

• miracle

• phenomenon

• reality

• mirage

To crawl or cower in a way that shows submission or subservience to another; to behave in an abject or servile manner.

• boast

• stride

• grovel

• tower

Someone who is motivated by an ideal vision of how things could be rather than by practical considerations; a utopian visionary or starry-eyed romantic.

• idealist

• realist

• cynic

• pragmatist

A person who starts a business.

• employee

• entrepreneur

• worker

• laborer

No longer fashionable or stylish; no longer useful; outdated or obsolete.

• chic

• avant-garde

• outmoded

• trendy

The forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• Holocaust

• Middle Passage

• Trail of Tears

• Great Famine