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