Definition (noun) A miniature world; something that resembles something else on a very small scale

Definition (verb) come about, happen, or occur

Definition: (noun) A likeness, a natural relationship, a kinship

Definition: (adj.) offensively bold

Definition: (adj.) tall, thin, and awkward

Definition: (verb) to understand, comprehend

Definition: (adj.) totally without skill or appropriateness

Definition: (noun) a cause of great suffering and distress

Definition: (noun) a retaliation for an injury

Definition: (noun) a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings

Definition: (verb) become similar to one's environment

Definition: (noun) a position well suited to the person who occupies it

Definition: (noun) perfectly smooth

Definition: (noun) the descendants of one individual

Definition: (noun) an imaginary place for lost or neglected things

Definition: (verb) speak out against

Definition: (adj.) self-important; arrogant

Definition: (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something

Definition: (verb) summon up, call forth, or bring together

If they trace their ______ (ancestry) back far enough, at a certain point it splits into white and native and a tangled web of "other."

Babiki was so shy that she didn't talk much to begin with, and I was so ______ (clueless) with women that I didn't know how to talk to her.

The white neighborhoods of Johannesburg were built on white fear—fear of black crime, fear of black uprisings and ______ (retaliations)—and as a result virtually every house sits behind a six-foot wall, and on top of that wall is electric wire.

Then I ______ (summoned) up all of my courage and turned to her.

Many colored people lived in this ______ (in-between stage), a true purgatory, always yearning for the white fathers who disowned them, and they could be horribly racist to one another as a result.

When my grandmother and great-grandmother were hysterically praying to God to destroy the demon...all of that ______ (took place) in Xhosa, but it's stored in English.

All you had to do was ______ (deny) your people, ______ (deny) your history, and leave your darker-skinned friends and family behind.

In the interest of survival, the smart move was to stay on the ______ (sidelines), stay out of trouble.

My mom used to call him Bugs Bunny; he had a ______ (bold) smile with two big teeth that stuck out the front of his mouth.

Since their native mothers are gone, their strongest ______ (kinship) has always been with their white fathers, the Afrikaners.

"You think you're high class?"— ______ (snobby), people would say in America.

I'd found my ______ (place). Since I belonged to no group I learned to move seamlessly between groups.

You will face more hate and ridicule and ostracism than you can even begin to ______ (understand).

In high school, the attention of girls was not an ______ (sickness) I suffered from.

Being a Model C school and not a government school, Sandringham drew kids from all over, making it a near-perfect ______ (small world) of post-apartheid South Africa as a whole—a perfect example of what South Africa has the potential to be.

I'd found my niche. Since I belonged to no group I learned to move ______ (effortlessly) between groups.

I'd ______ (thrifted) and saved my tuck-shop money and my CD money to buy them.

The only thing I had going for me was the fact that I was tall, but even there I was ______ (long and thin) and awkward-looking.

People are willing to accept you if they see you as an outsider trying to ______ (blend in) into their world.

At Sandringham we'd buy our lunch at what we call the tuck shop, a little canteen, and then have free rein to go wherever we wanted on the school grounds to eat—the ______ (rectangular area), the courtyard, the playground, wherever.