Matching Pairs Harlem Renaissance - vocab 1Online version Play this memory game for our Harlem Renaissance poetry unit. by Jocelyn Rowe 1 croon 2 sore 3 droning 4 syncopated 5 ebony 6 Euphrates 7 fester 8 ivory 9 melancholy 10 pallor when a wound becomes filled with pus shifting of stresses from normally strong to normally weak beats hum or sing in a soft, low voice, especially in a sentimental manner a river flowing through present day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq an unhealthy pale appearance a feeling of sadness with no obvious cause a raw or painful place on the body blackish or very dark brown hard white substance that makes up the part of elephant tusks make a continuous low humming sound