1. Sentence: the pickets were standing in front of the store where people were striking to lower prices.
Synonym: pillar, fence
Pickets: A person or fence standing outside a place preventing people from entering during a strike.
“They say he has given up his own work to do this picketing of the buses, and his wife pickets the other bus rank at Alexandra.”
Etymology: a guard
Chapter 8, Page 43
Antonym: none

2. Yonder: being in that place, or over there
Sentence: The road yonder is the one to take.
Synonym: away, far
Yonder: being in that place, or over there
“He would say that this is here, and that is there, and that yonder is over there yonder…”
Etymology –
Chapter 8, Page 46
Antonym: close, near

3. Planks: a long and flat piece of timber to stand on for support
Sentence: after the hurricane, people made a shelter to live in out of planks that they found near the ocean.
Synonym: board, lumber
Planks: a long and flat piece of timber to stand on for support
Come my husband, let us let the planks and the tins and the sacks and the poles”
Etymology – log, brick
Chapter 10, Page 56
Antonym: none

4. Sentence: he traveled in travail over the steep mountains as he was carrying ten bags of heavy rocks.
Synonym: toil, labor
Travail: painfully difficult work, pain or suffering from mental or physical work
“God save this piece of Africa that is my own, delivered in travail from my body, fed from my breast, loved by my heart, because that is the nature of women.”
Etymology – slavery
Chapter 9, Page 58
Antonym: none

5. Magistrate: a civil officer charged with the administration of the law
Sentence: the magistrate decided to send the man to jail after being justified with murder of the child in Africa.
Synonym: judge,
Magistrate: a civil officer charged with the administration of the law
But I am sorry to tell you that they took him away, and I heard that the magistrate had sent him to the reformatory.”
Etymology: judge at court
Chapter 10, Page 64
Antonym: none

6. Jesting: a playful or amusing act
Sentence: the clown at her birthday party was always jesing
Synonym: wit, humor
Jesting: a playful or amusing act
“Yet they were not really in the mood for jesting.”
Etymology: jester, clown
Chapter 10, Page 70
Antonym: drama, seriousness

7. Vacillate: to waver in mind or opinion
Sentence: she vacillated his idea after she heard that her friend died
Synonym: change, alternate
Vacillate: to waver in mind or opinion
“And so long as we vacillate, so long will we pay dearly for the dubious pleasure of not having to make up our minds.”
Etymology –
Chapter 12, Page 76
Antonym: stay, remain

8. Osiers: a twig of a willow tree
Sentence: the osiers of the willow trees always fall in the winter because there is so much wind blowing on the trees.
Synonym: none
Osiers: a twig of a willow tree
“Baskets stout and strong, in osiers of different colors, and these osiers ran though one another by some magic…”
Etymology: branch, leaf
Chapter 13, Page 89
Antonym: none

9. Synonym: wasteful, excessive
Sentence: he is a prodigal and only spends his money on candy.
Synonym: wasteful, excessive
Prodigal: a person who spends money with wasteful extravagant
“Have you found the prodigal?”
Etymology –
Chapter 14, Page 96
Antonym: careful

10. Mockery: a sarcastic, copied action or speech
Sentence: there is always mockery in her voice when she jokes around her friends acting like whatever she says is true.
Synonym: jest
Mockery: a sarcastic, copied action or speech
There was no mockery in his voice, and Father Vincent knew that it was not in this man’s nature to speak mockingly.”
Etymology – sarcasm
Chapter 15, Page 109
Antonym: seriousness