DIRECTIONS: USE AT LEAST 5 VOCABULARY WORDS TO WRITE A FICTIONAL STORY. YOUR STORY CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING. IT CAN BE FOCUSED ON A CHARACTER. A CONFLICT, A COMEDY OF ERRORS, AN ISSUE IN

PARENT, A FRIEND, A TEACHER, A PET, ETC. THIS WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF YOUR STORY. AT LEAST 5-10 SENTENCES. USE VOCAB WORDS DOWN BELOW

A.) profuse (adj) - excessive, generous, flowing freely

B.) expedient (adj) - useful for effecting a desired result

C) fastidious (adj) - not easy to please; overly critical; a nitpicker

D.) prosaic (adj) - uninspired; dull; banal

E.) philanthropy (n) - a desired to help mankind

F.) languid (adj) - slow; tired; drooping; weak

G.) astute (adj) - perceptive; clever

H.) authentic (adj) - real; genuine

1.) brevity (n) - briefness

J.) relevant (adj) - pertinent; important to kno

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

the significance of the title, "the passing", is related to the fact that the main characters, who are three african-american descendant women, are passing as white. this means that, because of their light-coloured skins they look like white women. one of the three friends, clare, is married to a white man and she lives in a white community and she has never told her husband that she is black. the title can easily be connected to the idea of pretending to be someone you are not and of losing your real identity in order to be accepted by society.