A Raisin in the Sun Act III Vocabulary

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

An inscription on a tomb to memorialize a dead person.

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

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

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.

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

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.

A person who starts a business.

No longer fashionable or stylish; no longer useful; outdated or obsolete.

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