Matching Pairs Harlem Renaissance - vocab 1Online version Play this memory game for our Harlem Renaissance poetry unit. by Jocelyn Rowe 1 droning 2 melancholy 3 croon 4 ivory 5 syncopated 6 ebony 7 pallor 8 fester 9 sore 10 Euphrates an unhealthy pale appearance hard white substance that makes up the part of elephant tusks 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 when a wound becomes filled with pus blackish or very dark brown a raw or painful place on the body make a continuous low humming sound a feeling of sadness with no obvious cause