Vocabulary

General Vocabulary Building

Civil War
southern states
racial segregation
interchangeable
partition
facilities
devoted to
misdemeanor
zilch
hearse
fatal flaw
overturned
participate
prominence
civil disobedience
racial discrimination
boycott
public opinion
moral responsibility
facilitate
Nobel Peace Prize
gifted
harmony
Emancipation Proclamation

Vocabulary from the Excerpts from the “I Have a Dream” speech

symbolic
momentous
decree
beacon
seared
withering
tragic
manacles
poverty
prosperity
languishing
exile
dramatize
appalling
wallow
despair
rooted
creed
self-evident
brotherhood
character