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AGOOM Vocab

AGOOM Vocab. Period 6. Conspirator. A person who takes part in conspiracy, Plotter. Charade . A blatant pretense or deception, especially something so full of pretense as to be a travesty. Lynch. “The white folks wanted to lynch Mathu, but Guidry stopped them.”

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AGOOM Vocab

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  1. AGOOM Vocab Period 6

  2. Conspirator

  3. A person who takes part in conspiracy, Plotter.

  4. Charade

  5. A blatant pretense or deception, especially something so full of pretense as to be a travesty.

  6. Lynch “The white folks wanted to lynch Mathu, but Guidry stopped them.” Rebecca Van Selow

  7. Definition To kill by hanging without being given a fair trial.

  8. Armoire “I looked through the shells I kept in a cigar box on top of the armoire till I found me a number five.” Rebecca Van Selow

  9. Definition A movable cabinet.

  10. Console “I held on to one of his arms, and Cal was patting him on the back to console him.” John Pizzurro

  11. Comforting in time of emotional distress

  12. Gridiron “On the gridiron they depended on each other the way one hand must depend on the other swinging a baseball bat.”

  13. A football field

  14. Mulatto • “She told me I might be able to catch him either at Silo or the old Mulatto Place, and she asked me again what was the matter.”

  15. Definition • Mixture of half-black half-white

  16. Cajun • “A Cajun’s dead over there at Marshall. Laying on his back in Mathu’s yard. Now you know”

  17. Definition • Being a white and/or French Louisiana Native

  18. Trifling • “We had never mixed too well with his people . We thought they was too trifling, never doing anything for themselves.”

  19. Definition • Insignificant, worthless

  20. The Klans • The Klans defended Luke Wills friends.

  21. Short for Ku Klux Klan

  22. NAACP • The NAACP was there, some black militants were there, and so were the state troopers, who stood by watching all and searching most of those who went in.

  23. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  24. Perpetually • Judge Reynolds is seventy, hair white as snow, face perpetually red from drinking,

  25. Continuing without interruption

  26. Archetypal • And he looks like the archetypal typical grandfather, or what you would want your grandfather to look like.

  27. The original pattern or model

  28. Presided • And he admitted from the beginning that not only had he never presided over a case quite like this one, but that he had never heard of one like this in all his thirty-five years on the bench.

  29. To be in the place of authority or control

  30. Deliberated • The jury deliberated three hours, then returned with the verdict.

  31. Consulted formally

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