| A | B |
| Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | Alice Walker |
| Dispossession | taking away of one's possessions |
| Sensibility | consciousness; awareness; emotional responsiveness |
| Embody | make real; give form to; or include |
| Ephemeral | short-lived; passing quickly |
| Main idea | the message/opinion/or ideas that a writer wants to communicate |
| Inferences | educated guesses |
| Reconstruction | period after the Civil War lasting from 1867-1877 to bring Southern states back into the Union & slaves granted citizenship |