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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
idleness (adjective)
1. not active or in use 2. without purpose or effect; pointless "One of those things was gentleness and another was idleness." (page 13) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
contemptible (adjective)
deserving contempt; despicable "And indeed he was possessed by the fear of his father's contemptible life and shameful death." (page 18) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
atone (verb)
make amends or reparation "That was why Okonkwo had been chosen by the nine villages to carry a message of war to their enemies unless they agreed to give up a young man and a virgin to atone for the murder of Udo's wife." (page 27) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
arduous (adjective)
involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult "It was a brief resting period between the exacting and arduous planting season and the equally exacting but light-hearted month of harvests." (page 34) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
harmattan (noun)
a dry, dusty easterly or northeasterly wind on the West African coast, occurring from December to February "They came in the cold harmattan season after the harvests had been gathered, and ate up all the wild grass in the fields." (page 54) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
defiant (adjective)
showing defiance "Ekwefi then became defiant and called her next child Onwuma- 'Death may please himself.'" (page 77) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 11, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
elude (verb)
evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way "In that way she will elude her wicked tormentor and break its evil cycle of birth and death." (page 77) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
iyi-uwa (noun)
a special kind of stone which forms the link between an ogbanje and the spirit world. Only if the iyi-uwa were discovered and destroyed would the child not die ""Where did you bury your iyi-uwa?" asked Okagbue." (page 82) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
guttural (adjective)
(of a speech sound) produced in the throat; harsh-sounding "Then came the voices of the egwugwu, guttural and awesome." (page 88) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
plumage (noun)
a bird's feathers collectively "Tortoise stood in his many colored plumage and thanked them for their invitation." (page 97) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
incipient (adjective)
in an initial stage; beginning to happen or develop "But now she found the half-light of the incipient moon more terrifying than darkness." (page 106) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
cassava (noun)
1. the starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries but requiring careful preparation to remove traces of cyanide from the flesh 2. the starchy tuberous root of a tropical tree, used as food in tropical countries but requiring careful preparation to remove traces of cyanide from the flesh "Some of the women cooked yams and the cassava, and others prepared vegetable soup." (page 113) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
esoteric (adjective)
intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with specialized knowledge or interest "He raised his voice once or twice in manly sorrow and then sat down with the other men listening to the endless wailing of the women and the esoteric language of the ekwe." (page 120) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
coiffure (noun)
a person's hairstyle, typically an elaborate one "Palm trees swayed as the wind combed their leaves into flying crests like strange and fantastic coiffure." (page 130) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 16, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
impudent (adjective)
not showing due respect for another person; impertinent " And so excitement mounted in the village as the seventh week approached since the impudent missionaries built their church in the Evil Forest." (page 150) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 17, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
miscreant (noun)
a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law "A sudden fury rose within him and he felt a strong desire to take up his machete, go to the church and wipe out the entire vile and miscreant gang." (page 152) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 17, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
buoyant (adjective)
able to apt to stay afloat or rise to the top of a liquid or gas "The young ailing girl who had caused her mother so much heartache had been transformed, almost overnight, into a healthy, buoyant maiden." (page 173) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 17, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
pacified (transitive verb)
quell the anger, agitation, or excitement of "And for the moment the spirit of the clan was pacified." (page 191) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 17, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
sheathed (transitive verb)
put (a weapon such as a knife or sword) into a sheath, or protective covering "He hung his goatskin bag and his sheathed machete on his shoulder and went to join him." (page 201) |
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Brooke Landreville
February 17, 2013 Period 2 Quarter #2 Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Assignment: Vocabulary Card |
tumultuous (adjective)
making a loud, confused noise; uproarious " The waiting backcloth jumped into tumultuous life and the meeting was stopped." (page 205) |
