Same Kind of Different as Me - Chapter 1

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  1. gator
    either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
    Folks says the bayou in Red River Parish is full to its pea-green brim with the splintery bones of colored folks that white men done fed to the gators for covetin their women, or maybe just lookin cross-eyed.
  2. cypress tree
    any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
    Cypress trees squatted like spiders in the water, which was the color of pale green apples.
  3. cross-eyed
    having convergent strabismus
    Folks says the bayou in Red River Parish is full to its pea-green brim with the splintery bones of colored folks that white men done fed to the gators for covetin their women, or maybe just lookin cross-eyed.
  4. bayou
    a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake
    The plantation was big and flat, like a whole lotta farms put together with a bayou snakin all through it.
  5. hardwood
    the wood of broad-leaved dicotyledonous trees
    There was a lotta different fields on that spread, maybe a hundred, two hundred acres each, lined off with hardwood trees, mostly pecans.
  6. iota
    a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
    He'd whistled at a white woman, and some other good ole boys-seemed like them woods was full of em-didn't like that one iota.
  7. pecan
    tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts
    There was a lotta different fields on that spread, maybe a hundred, two hundred acres each, lined off with hardwood trees, mostly pecans.
  8. burr
    seed vessel having hooks or prickles
    The noose poked into my neck like burrs, and fear crawled up through my legs into my belly.
  9. weasel
    small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body
    Another one, dark-haired and kinda weasel-lookin, put one hand on his saddle horn and pushed back his hat with the other.
  10. cyclone
    an atmospheric system in which air circulates rapidly
    Like the yella spell before a cyclone.
  11. eyeball
    the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
    They beat that boy till one a' his eyeballs fell out, then tied a cotton-gin fan around his neck and throwed him off a bridge into the Tallahatchie River.
  12. parish
    a local church community
    I was maybe fifteen, sixteen years old, walkin down the red dirt road that passed by the front of the cotton plantation where I lived in Red River Parish, Louisiana.
  13. spat
    a quarrel about petty points
    "What you lookin' at, boy?" he said and spat in the dirt.
  14. whistle
    the sound made when someone forces breath through pursed lips
    He'd whistled at a white woman, and some other good ole boys-seemed like them woods was full of em-didn't like that one iota.
  15. cypress
    any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
    Cypress trees squatted like spiders in the water, which was the color of pale green apples.
  16. plantation
    an estate where cash crops are grown on a large scale
    I was maybe fifteen, sixteen years old, walkin down the red dirt road that passed by the front of the cotton plantation where I lived in Red River Parish, Louisiana.
  17. rope
    a strong line
    Then the boy closest to me slung a grass rope around my neck, like he was ropin a calf.
  18. squat
    sit on one's heels
    Cypress trees squatted like spiders in the water, which was the color of pale green apples.
  19. poke
    thrust abruptly
    The noose poked into my neck like burrs, and fear crawled up through my legs into my belly.
  20. investigate
    conduct an inquiry of
    She investigated till she found it out on her own.
  21. overall
    involving only main features
    I had a shack I didn't own, two pairs a' overalls I got on credit, a hog, and a outhouse.
  22. freight
    goods carried by a large vehicle
    All them years, there was a freight train that used to roll through Red River Parish on some tracks right out there by Highway 1.
  23. calf
    young of domestic cattle
    Then the boy closest to me slung a grass rope around my neck, like he was ropin a calf.
  24. track
    a line or route along which something travels or moves
    Red dust from the horses' tracks floated up over me.
  25. grateful
    feeling or showing thankfulness
    "Yes, thank you," she said, lookin purty grateful to tell you the truth.
  26. fan
    a device for creating a current of air by movement
    They beat that boy till one a' his eyeballs fell out, then tied a cotton-gin fan around his neck and throwed him off a bridge into the Tallahatchie River.
  27. threat
    declaration of an intention to inflict harm on another
    But the chance of it, the threat of it, hung over the cotton fields like a ghost.
  28. train
    educate for a future role or function
    All them years, there was a freight train that used to roll through Red River Parish on some tracks right out there by Highway 1.
  29. float
    be on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom
    Red dust from the horses' tracks floated up over me.
  30. Negro
    a person with dark skin who comes from Africa
    -Negro Spiritual

    Denver

    Until Miss Debbie, I'd never spoke to no white woman before.
  31. wind
    air moving from high pressure to low pressure
    And to me, even that was mighty risky since the last time I was fool enough to open my mouth to a white woman, I wound up half-dead and nearly blind.
  32. spiritual
    lacking material body or form or substance
    -Negro Spiritual

    Denver

    Until Miss Debbie, I'd never spoke to no white woman before.
  33. career
    the particular occupation for which you are trained
    Now when a black man who can't read, can't write, can't figger, and don't know how to work nothin but cotton comes to the big city, he don't have too many of what white folks call "career opportunities."
  34. prison
    a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
    And I had been nasty, homeless, in scrapes with the law, in Angola prison, and homeless again for a lotta years by the time I met Miss Debbie.
  35. credit
    an estimate of ability to fulfill financial commitments
    I had a shack I didn't own, two pairs a' overalls I got on credit, a hog, and a outhouse.
  36. president
    the leader of a republic or democracy
    It might be hard for you to imagine, but I worked like that while the seasons rolled by from the time I was a little bitty boy, all the way past the time that president named Kennedy got shot dead in Dallas.
  37. opportunity
    a possibility from a favorable combination of circumstances
    Now when a black man who can't read, can't write, can't figger, and don't know how to work nothin but cotton comes to the big city, he don't have too many of what white folks call "career opportunities."
  38. figure
    alternate name for the body of a human being
    Looked to me like she was tryin to figure out how to fix a flat tire.
  39. fell
    cause to go down by or as if by delivering a blow
    They beat that boy till one a' his eyeballs fell out, then tied a cotton-gin fan around his neck and throwed him off a bridge into the Tallahatchie River.
Created on 一月 13, 2011

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