https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq For making posts about unfamiliar words in Between the World and Me en-us 2023-08-18 21:49:06 UTC 2025-09-16 20:23:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4d7.png mollymontgomery8_1 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2666153417 Ms. Montgomery will assign your table a section of "Between the World and Me" 

Look through your assigned section. Find a word whose definition is unfamiliar to you (or a word that you think would be challenging to an 11th grader if there are no unfamiliar words).

DO NOT LOOK UP THE DEFINITION

Make a post with the following information:

1. The word
2. The sentence it came from and the book with a proper in-text citation (Coates 15) 
3. Are there any clues in the prefix, suffix, or root of the word that hint at its meaning?
4. Based on the context, what do you think the word means?

]]> 2023-08-18 22:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2666153417 mollymontgomery8_1 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2666154164 1. Physiognomy
2. "And the process of naming 'the people' has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy as much as one of hierarchy." (Coates 5)
3. I know that the root "physio" is also in words like "physiology" and "physician" which have to do with the study of the body so maybe it has to do with the body or medicine
4. Based on the context, I can guess the word means the science of categorizing people based on their body features]]> 2023-08-18 22:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2666154164 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667650420 1. Exoneration
2. "But my experience in this world has been that the people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics of personal exoneration." (Coates 97)
3. I know that 'ex' is in words such as 'exit', 'except', and 'explain', which typically serve as a means of leaving a situation, removing something from consideration, or reasoning with someone.
4. Based on the context, I would guess that 'exoneration' means something similar to 'absolution'- to exonerate someone is to convince people that they're not a bad person/that they're a good person.]]> 2023-08-21 15:44:12 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667650420 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667650470 1. Despotic
2. "The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language---violence." (Coates 30)
3. I think the suffix -ic means "to be" or "in such a manner." I've heard of the word "despot" before and I used to know what it meant but we don't ever use that word in day to day life so I've kind of forgotten it but I know it has a negative connotation.
4. Based on the context, I think the word means cruel and unjust, ruthless, merciless.]]> 2023-08-21 15:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667650470 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667651684 1. Bemused
2. "It had never occurred to me to leave America... I was bemused at your mother's dreams of Paris. I could not understand them- and I did not think I needed to"(Coates 117).
3. It sounds like the word "amused" which is to be entertained by something. I wonder if bemused is the opposite of that? "a-" usually means "not" so bemused might mean whatever "mused" means- like intrigued? 
4. Based on the context I can confirm it sounds like it means he is intrigued.]]> 2023-08-21 15:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667651684 kianass251_1 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667652037 1. Exoneration
2. "But my experience in this world has been that the people who believe themselves to be white are obsessed with the politics of personal exoneration." (Coates 97)
3. I know that 'ex' is in words such as 'exit', 'except', and 'explain', which typically serve as a means of leaving a situation, removing something from consideration, or reasoning with someone.
4. Based on the context, I would guess that 'exoneration' means something similar to 'absolution'- to exonerate someone is to convince people that they're not a bad person/that they're a good person. Or to clean that person's hands of the bad things that they've done.]]> 2023-08-21 15:45:58 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667652037 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667652377 1.Inviolability
2."prove the inviolability of their block,of their bodies,through their power to crack knees,ribs and arms."(Coates 23)
3.I know that the root "ability" is also in words like "availability" and inability which means the strength to do something.
4.Base on the context,I think the word means probably the strength to be safe and protected]]> 2023-08-21 15:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667652377 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667652613 1. Inscrutable
2. "I knew that some inscrutable energy preserved the breach"(Coates 21)
3. I am not sure want the prefix or suffix of the word are.
4. Based on the sentence, I think that the word means mysterious or unnatural.]]> 2023-08-21 15:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667652613 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667653015 1. amorphous
2. "And if every black body was precious, a one of one, if Malcolm was correct and you must preserve your life, how could I see these precious lives as simply a collective mass, as the amorphous residue of plunder?"(Coates 49)
3. I don't know
4. Based on the context, I think this word means unintelligible, unidentifiable]]> 2023-08-21 15:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667653015 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667653078 2. "I loved [Malcolm] because he made it plain, never mystical or esoteric, because his science was not rooted in the actions of spoofs and mystery gods, but in the work of the physical world" (Coates 36). 
3. To me, "-ic" signifies an adjective, which makes sense in context, but I don't recognize any other word parts.
4. It must have a meaning similar to 'mystical'. Right after the word, Coates talks about two kinds of sciences. Esoteric must in some way describe the first one: a religious, fake, meaningless science. My guess is that esoteric means religious or false. ]]> 2023-08-21 15:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667653078 sijaet25_2 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667654916 1. Despotic
2. "The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language---violence." (Coates 30)
3. I think the suffix -ic means "to be" or "in such a manner." I've heard of the word "despot" before and I used to know what it meant but we don't ever use that word in our day to day life so I've kind of forgotten it but I know it has a negative connotation.
4. Based on the context, I think the word despotic means cruel, unjust, ruthless, merciless.]]> 2023-08-21 15:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667654916 maggied251_1 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655164 1. Acquiescence
2. "The housing occurred to me as a moral disaster not just for the people living there but for the entire region, the metropolis of commuters who drove by, each day, and with their quiet acquiescence tolerated such a thing." (Coates 67)
3. The suffix "-escence" is familiar to me, as it is often used as a noun to denote an action.
4. This word in this context probably means tolerance of something, or acceptance.]]> 2023-08-21 15:49:04 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655164 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655324 1. Dearth
2. "And when Dr. Jones described her motive for escaping the dearth that marked the sharecropper life of her father and all the others around her,"
3. No prefix or suffix
4. Im assuming a symbol or mark, as it represents an aspect of life.]]> 2023-08-21 15:49:16 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655324 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655437 1. Dilapidated
2. "the State Street Corridor---a four mile stretch of dilapidated public housing" (Coates 66)
3. I recognize the suffix -ated from other words like outdated and abated, so it might be as if something happened to it, or something from the past
4. Based on the context, I'm guessing dilapidated means run-down or not very nice
Brody Luce]]> 2023-08-21 15:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655437 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655445 1. Heresies
2. "But democracy is a forgiving God and America's heresies - torture, theft, enslavement - are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune."
3.   I'm not sure but it sounds like the word heir.
4. Based on the context I can't guess it's exact meaning but I do believe it has a very bad notation and a similar meaning to the words torture, theft, and enslavement. ]]> 2023-08-21 15:49:23 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655445 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655492 1. Pageantry
2. "In the days after, I watched the ridiculous pageantry of flags, the machismo of firemen, the overwrought slogans." (Coates 87)
3. The ending -try might be an indicator that it is an action that was done.
4. Based on the context, it might mean the wide showing of flags in streets, especially because the setting is in New York, a very diverse city.]]> 2023-08-21 15:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655492 samueljd251_1 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655516 1. Hasidic
2. "I met many of them at The Mecca--Like your uncle Ben, who was raised in New York, which forced him to understand himself as an African American navigating among Haitians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, and Italiens" (85).
3. It's Latinized Hebrew, I couldn't be bothered to sit through an hour-long lecture from my Grandfather.
4. My guess from the context of New York, and Judaism, is very Orthodox and do the whole "nine-yards" of Judaism.]]> 2023-08-21 15:49:27 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667655516 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667656254 1. Ethnograpies
2. "And all of these areas had histories sprawling literary canons, field work, ethnographies." (Coates 47)
3. The root "ethno" is also in the word "ethnicity" and "ethnic" which have to do with identity. The suffix "graphies" is used in words like "geography" and "photography" which have to do with recording. This could mean that it has to do with recording identities.
4. In context, "ethnograpies" could mean the records of identifying groups.]]> 2023-08-21 15:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667656254 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667656688 1. Sentience
2. "The plunder of black life was drilled into this country in its infancy and reinforced across its history, so that plunder has become an heirloom, an intelligence, a sentience, a default setting to which, likely to the end of our days, we must invariably return" (Coates 111). 
3. Maybe it comes from the word "sentiment" which is used to describe a time being emotional. 
4. I think based on the context it means an emotional period of time that people went through. 


]]> 2023-08-21 15:50:26 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667656688 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667657117 "And all those old photographs from the 1960s, all those films I beheld of black people prostrate before clubs and dogs, were not simply shameful, indeed were not shameful at all -- they were just true" (Coates 146).

So the prefix is pro which is also used in protect, proactive, protest. This prefix means "for". I have no idea what strate could mean.

Based on context, I think that it means like "are belittled" before... i think this because black people were often belittled in photographs and films in the past.

]]> 2023-08-21 15:50:54 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667657117 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667657727 1. Divinity 
2. "There is no them without you, and without the right to break you they must necessarily fall from the mountain, loose there divinity and tumble out of the dream." pg 105  
3. I don't know 
4. Based on the context I think it means to be divided ]]> 2023-08-21 15:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667657727 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667659277 1. Imbued 
2. "That moment, a joyous moment, beyond the Dream-a moment imbued by a power more gorgeous than any voting rights bill."(Coates 149)
3. The prefix im seems like the prefix in. the prefix in usually is used in words that mean,  creation and into. 
4.im going to guess that it means fueled, powerd and created.

]]> 2023-08-21 15:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667659277 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667659454 1.Lynching
2."In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened "at the hands of persons unknown." "(Coates 97-98)
3.There is no prefix in the word lynching and the suffix it has only changes the word from a noun to a verb.
4.Based on the context and the use of the word executioner, I think that the word is similar to a biased killing of people.]]> 2023-08-21 15:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667659454 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667660239 1. The word I chose was "imbibed". 

2. "A young man pulled out a bottle of Cognac and twisted the cap. A girl with him smiled, tilted her head back, imbibed, laughed." (Coates 147) 

3. The only part of speech I could identify was the "ed" of imbibed, which suggests that the word was used in the past tense.

4. I think the word means to be in a state of joy and excitement. I determined this because the girl is in a party and the offer of alcohol by the man instills a feeling of excitement because most likely the girl is at the party to have fun, and she believes alcohol can help her achieve that goal.  ]]> 2023-08-21 15:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667660239 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667660549 1. Primordial
2. "Here was the primordial stuff of our own Dream - the Dream of a "black race" - of our own Tolstoys who lived deep in the African past, where we authored operas, pioneered secret algebra, erected ornate walls, pyramids, colossi, bridges, roads, and all the inventions that I then thought must qualify one's lineage for the ranks of civilization" (Coates 45). 
3. I know that 'prim' is in the word 'primary' and 'primal' which means first.
4. Based on the context I can guess that the word might mean something that is has been existing for a while. ]]> 2023-08-21 15:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667660549 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667660748 1. Mordial 
2. "Perhaps we should return to ourselves, to our own mordial streets...perhaps we should return to the Mecca." (Coates 39)
3. It sounds kind of like the word "primordial" so maybe it means to be from the beginning or to exist a long time ago. 
4. Based on the context, I'm guessing that it means where the narrator is from.]]> 2023-08-21 15:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2667660748 katebg251_1 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2669261116 1. Siphoning 
2. "This need to be always on guard was an unmeasured expenditure of energy, the slow siphoning of the essence" (Coates 90).
3. From the "ing" at the end of the word, I can infer that the word siphoning is a verb. 
4. Based on the context, I can guess that the word means draining/drawing out.]]> 2023-08-22 21:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2669261116 https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2673230974 1. Posthumous
2. ". Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance-no matter how improved-as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children." (Coates 70)
3. The prefix is "post" which means after something.
4. It says, ". . . untouchable glory of dying for their children" so I think it means a child being born after the death of a parent.]]> 2023-08-25 17:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/albanyunified/tscppndnq2ul8biq/wish/2673230974