Black Like Me vocabulary

€� Disconsolate expression that is written on the countenance of so many southern negroes. " Based on the sentence what does the word countenance mean?

" Package of picayunes, please" (BLM 13) What do you think picayunes mean?

€� The same stereotyped image of the Negro, as inexhaustible sex-machine with oversized genitals (page 86)” What can you infer that inexhaustible means?

€� It’s too poignant, like the little boy peering in the candy store window (page 42).” what does the word poignant mean as used in the sentence?

“ He knows by the white man’s look of disapproval and petulance that he is being told to get on his way (page 42).” what does petulance mean?

€� He showed none of the obsequiousness of the southern negro (page 8).” what does obsequiousness mean?