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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 2 of Beyond Five Aprils.
Read each sentence or phrase and see if you can determine the definition by the context in which it is used in the sentence, if you do not already know the meaning of the word.
- “Well then, I’ll ask you this: if tomorrow every slave in the South had his freedom and come up North, would yore abolitionists git the crocodile tears sloshed out of their eyes so they could take the black man by the hand?”
- the North has become arrogant toward the South
- Jethro was sensitive to color and contrast; the memory of the golden kitchen and the velvet shadows of the room beyond was firmly stamped in his mind.
- “But what about the downtrodden people, Wilse?”
- as he watched the young master feint and parry and finally knock his opponent flat on the frozen ground
- War, he had thought, must give men that same feeling of strength and fulfillment.
- “The high-tariff industrialists would sooner hev the South starve than give an inch that might cost them a penny.”
- Jethro could sense the pleasure they felt in seeing one another again after the lapse of several years.
- “Now he kin set back and look pious at the states that has been blowin’ hot and cold.”
- the President warned Governor Pickens of South Carolina of his intention to send provisions to them; he made it clear that it was to be only provisions
- “To open fire because provisions are being brought to hungry men ...”
- “Wilse, our roots air in that state.”
- Ordinarily they would long since have been in bed, but the need to hear news of the seething storm in the East kept them awake
- She smiled at him, gentleness replacing the stern expression in her eyes
- Wilse Graham’s voice was strident with anger
- Her voice was no longer tremulous; it carried the authoritative note sharpened by long years of mothering a large family
- but he could not find words to define what he felt, and that lack left him in a turmoil of frustration
- they grew loud and vehement in their demands for war
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