Matching Pairs Harlem Renaissance - vocab 1Online version Play this memory game for our Harlem Renaissance poetry unit. by Jocelyn Rowe 1 melancholy 2 droning 3 ivory 4 syncopated 5 sore 6 ebony 7 Euphrates 8 pallor 9 croon 10 fester when a wound becomes filled with pus 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 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 shifting of stresses from normally strong to normally weak beats a raw or painful place on the body blackish or very dark brown