Sunday, November 16, 2014

November 17,2014

Vocabulary:

Replace each word with an appropriate synonym from the Word Box below.

Word Box:


skill        dust       storm      evil         intent           meantime

threatening       whimsical      hawk       tenant      farming

beginning        knife          seashells (money)

1. “Okonkwo’s fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan

(_______________).”

2. “When they had eaten they talked about . . . the impending

(_______________) war with the village of Mbaino.”

3. “In short, he was asking Unoka to return the two hundred cowries

(_______________) he had borrowed from him more than two years before.”

4. “To crown it all he had taken two titles and shown incredible prowess

(_______________) in two inter-tribal wars.”

5. “ . . . there was no hurry to decide his fate. Okonkwo was, therefore, asked on

behalf of the clan to look after him in the interim (_______________).”

6. “It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious

(_______________) gods and of magic . . . and of the forces of nature,

malevolent (_______________), red in tooth and claw.”


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