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?
A person's body expressions
A person's facial expression or face
" Package of picayunes, please" (BLM 13) What do you think picayunes mean?
Cookies
Cigarettes
€ The same stereotyped image of the Negro, as inexhaustible sex-machine with oversized genitals (page 86)” What can you infer that inexhaustible means?
Tired
Unable to be used up because existing is abundance
€ 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?
Happiness or excitement
A keen sense of sadness or regret
“ 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?
The quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
The quality of being very pleasant
€ He showed none of the obsequiousness of the southern negro (page 8).” what does obsequiousness mean?
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
Ignorant or rude
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