Word Wizard-
1.  riled, "It wasn't right and I just know'd that, but I ain't never let Pa know how I was feeling, 'cause Pa he could get awful riled and riled quick." Pg.21  1 : to make agitated and angry : UPSET.  My definition- to get excited,angry, and upset. (verb)  The white people got riled if a colored person spoke back with attitude.
2.  tenant, "Being tenants wasn't bad as being sharecroppers seeing that we owned our mule, paid for our own seed and such, and paid our rent for the land in cash money 'stead of crops; still, we ain't owned the land we farmed like the Logan's done." Pg.24 1 a : one who holds or possesses real estate or sometimes personal property (as an annuity) by any kind of right b : one who has the occupation or temporary session of lands or tenements of another; specifically : one who rents or leases (as a house) from a landlord. (noun)  Why do you think it was better to be a tenant than a sharecropper?  Answer:  Because the tenant paid their rent in cash money instead of crops.
3.  humiliation, Pg.20
4.  acre, Pg. 24
5.  burlap, Pg. 29