Definitions and sentence examples

1
Vocabulary for Race and Diversity in the Age of
Obama, Who Is a Person?, and I Have a Dream

• Definitions and sentence examples

2
Definitions

• Periodicoccurring regularly (adj)
• Jeremiada complaint, some sort of prophecy of
  doom, a lamentation (noun)
• Bifurcateddivided into two (adj verb-to
  bifurcate)
• Complicitbeing involved in an illegal or
  questionable act (adj noun-complicity)
• Viscoussticky consistency (adj noun-viscosity)

3
Definitions

• Metastasizedto spread dangerously (verb)
• Imperturbableincapable of being upset or
  agitated not easily excited (adj)
• Winsomesweetly or innocently charming (adj)
• Fomentto instigate or foster (verb, needs an
  object after it)
• Predicatedto proclaim, declare, affirm, assert
  (verb used with an object) this word is NOT
  predicted!!!!

4
Definitions

• Insensateinanimate (adj)
• Eugenicsimproving the human species by
  controlling reproduction disallowing those with
  disabilities, genetic defects, or any undesirable
  traits to reproduce (noun) very controversial
  idea!!
• Staidsedate, not flightly, fixed, settled (adj)
• Miencharacter, appearance, demeanor (noun)

5
Definitions

• Diatribea bitter, sharply abusive attack or
  criticism (noun)
• Inextricablycannot become untangled or loosened
  from (adv)
• Hallowedholy, venerated, sacred (adj)
• Degenerateto fall below normal or desirable
  level, deteriorate (verb)
• Interpositioncoming between, interfering (noun)
• Nullificationto take away value, deprive (noun)

6
Vocabulary sentence examples

• American government represents the worlds first
  government predicated upon the consent of the
  people. (from Who Is A Person?)
• Slaves were viewed as insensate people who were
  alive but basically werent human.
• Students are complicit in their own failures if
  they do not ask for help.
• Recently, there have been periodic jeremiads
  against the proposed healthcare reforms.

7
Vocabulary sentence examples

• Jim Crow laws established an increasingly
  bifurcated American society.
• Truss believes that punctuation use has
  degenerated since the introduction of technology.
• Level of education attained and amount of salary
  earned are inextricably linked.
• The bitter diatribes spoken against the British
  government began to foment rebellion.
• Eugenics is a method of controlling reproduction
  by forbidding certain types of people to
  procreate, often without their knowledge or
  consent.
• The President remained imperturbable, even when a
  Congressman yelled You lie! during his speech.

8
Vocabulary sentence examples

• The class was shocked when the normally staid
  teacher screamed in a students face and
  subsequently wrote her up.
• Words of interposition have been dividing America
  ever since we established ourselves as a new
  nation.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. would no longer endure
  the nullification of the Emancipation
  Proclamation, a purpose he emphasizes in his
  famous I Have a Dream speech.
• Hatred in this country metastasized to the point
  that Congress had to pass special legislation in
  1965 in order to affirm that all people indeed
  are equal citizens in this country.