1. 'pidgin' refers to a primitive language used to communicate minimally between two people who don't speak each others' languages. It is most commonly thought of as a language that would have been used to communicate between European explorers and primitive people. 2. The writer is talking about building a 'shoe-shine box', which is an object on which a customer would put his/her feet while someone (the shoe-shine person) shines (polishes) the customer's shoes, for pay. The saw cut refers to the notch in a partially cut wooden board during the process of sawing it. By 'concentrated' the writer is saying he/she is trying to pay attention to what he/she is doing while making the box. 3. A two-by-four (or 2x4) is a standard unit of measure for lumber in the US. It is a board that is 4 inches wide and 2 inches thick. That is about 10 cm wide by 5 cm thick. 4. Hard to answer without seeing it in a sentence, but 'clonks' probably refers to the sounds made by something hitting something else. Maybe a 2x4 hitting someone's head? :-) 5. Bone-rattling means the blows are hard enough that your bones rattle. It is figurative, meaning very painful and unpleasant as a result of being hit by something. 6. A table saw is an electric powered saw that has a circular blade. The wooden board to be cut is placed upon a table that has a slot for the blade, and the operator CAREFULLY moves the board across the blade while it is cut. It is not hyphenated. 7. 'tellingly' is used when someone says or does something that, probably unintentionally, reveals something. Example: "He tellingly looked the other way, so I knew he was lying." 8. It probably means that the composition of the class (the selection of people in the class) was constructed so as to have certain amounts of members of different races. More context would be needed to answer for sure.

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1. pidgin, is a badly pronounced and simplified version of english (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=define+pidgin&oq=define+pidgin&aqs=chrome..69i57.3511j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) 2. you ignored the [abusive and intrusive man's actions] and continued to use a saw to cut your half-built box to contain tools that would be used to shine footwear 3. 2by4 is a standard measure of size of piece of wood.. 2 inches wide by 4 inches deep i suggest you google translate the remainder and hopefully be more specific in your questions