The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963

VocabularyChapters 5-8

flamethrower

• N, weapon that shoots fire

peon

• N, impoverished laborer (poor worker) especially one who does menial (dirty or slave like) work

Tolerate

• V. to put up with

pinnacle

• N, peak; highest point

dispersal

• N, condition of being spread out or scattered

grasped

• V. understood or realized

haphazardly

• Adv, randomly or by chance

swoon

• V. faint

maestro

• N, master of an art such as a musical conductor