Chapters 5-7
Group One and two
Define each vocabulary words.
fibrous
calabashes
frenzy
intoxicating
Group three
Using Prior Knowledge and Context Clues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence.
Use any clues you can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean in the space provided.
1. The new year must begin with tasty, fresh yams and not the shriveled and fibrous crop of the previous year.
2. All cooking pots, calabashes, and wooden bowls were thoroughly washed, especially the wooden mortar in which yam was pounded.
3. The drums rose to a frenzy.
4. Old men nodded to the beat of the drums and remembered the days when they wrestled to its intoxicating rhythm.
5. Within a short time the two bouts were over.
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