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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