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