| A | B |
| profound | deepy meaningful (adj.) |
| lynching | putting to death by handing (v) |
| Jim Crow | practice and policy of separating black people from white people (n) |
| implacable | unbending (adj) |
| fiat | an order or sanction from high authority (n) |
| hypocrisy | deceitful contradiction; double standard (n) |
| affirmative | favoring; optimistic (adj) |
| integrated | combining different elements harmoniously (adj) |
| schism | split; division (n) |
| trumped-up | fabricated; falsified (adj) |
| indignity | injury; slight (n) |
| embedded | firmly enclosed (v) |
| bodega | grocery store (n) |
| apathetic | having little emotion or interest (adj) |
| ruckus | disturbance; commotion (n) |
| grilling | asking intensely; interrogating (v) |
| punctuate | emphasize; stress (v) |
| palpable | easily seen; noticeable (adj) |