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