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A vocabulary word list of 56 words for Black Boy occurs in order of appearance:
  • Chapters 1-2 pages 3-77
    cryptic (7), doggerel (24), infinite (7), copiously (27), languor (8), injunction (13)
    Chapter 2 pages 36-77: intangible (37), surreptitiously (50), asafetida (72), emulate (73)
  • Chapters 3-6 pages 77-157
    grapple (81), elicited (92), nirise (86), predilection (100)
    Chapter 5 pages 122-144: solicitude, palatial (128), palled (133)
    Chapter 6: invectives (149), nominal (156), boon (150), impudent (157), sonorously (155)
  • Chapters 7-15 pages 163-283
    Chapter 7 florid (163)
    Chapter 8 pages 170-178: impetus (173)
    Chapter 9 dissemble (184), breech (191)
    Chapter 10, pages 194-207 (aka "The Library Card"): subservience (196), repugnant (199), denounce, castigate, advocate, extol revel.
    Chapter 15 pp. 261-283: translucently (261), terse (278), feudalism (265), libations (282), tawdry (271), travail (273)
  • Chapters 16-18 pages 284-328
    Chapter 16 pp 284-299: cynical (285), oblique (286), succumbed (288) malinger (293), eschewing (295)
    Chapter 17, pages 300-314: anarchy (301), insurgent (302), obviate (307)
    Chapter 18 pages 315-328: tents (322)
  • Chapters 19-20 pages 329-382
    Chapter 19, pp 329-375: bourgeois (331), ideological (360), internecine (368), inherent (332), recrimination (361), truncated (374), incipient (351), aesthetic (364), Fascism (355), erstwhile (367)
    Chapter 20 proletarian (377), sundered (382)

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