She seemed to hold no ________ against the babysitter,

nor for her just God who allowed the accident.

From being a mobile lunch counter, she set up a stand between the two points of ________ interest and supplied the workers’ needs for a few years.

Guide my feet this day along the straight and narrow, and help me to put a _______ on my tongue from speaking ill against my enemies.

Whether I could remember the rest of the poem or not was __________,

it didn't matter to the cruel children in the Church.

Many people moved to poor Southern towns when the urban North __________on its economic promises.

When I was three and Bailey four, we had arrived in the ________ little town,

full of old, dilapidated buildings, surrounded by the dirty red clay.

In later years I was to confront the stereotyped picture of song-singing cotton pickers with such ________ rage that I was told even by fellow Blacks

that my paranoia was embarrassing.

Our parents had decided to put an end to their ________ marriage,

and Father shipped us away to live with his mother in Arkansas.

On Saturdays, the barber sat in the shade on the porch, while the __________ sang their sad songs as they played juice harps and cigar-box guitars.

stale and unclean smelling

lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other

a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences

the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess

beyond normal limits

having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value

fail to fulfill a promise or obligation

a singer of folk songs

involving financial matters