November 19,2014

Using Prior knowledge and contextual Clues

Group One and Two

Using the following vocabulary words and write it in complete sentences. These words are the same words from yesterday's homework that you have to find the definition for.

1. perpertual


2.  Capricious


3.  incipient


4.  brusqueness


5.  kindred


6.  benevolent


Group Three

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.  His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little
children.

2. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear
of the forest, and of the forces of nature, red in tooth and claw.

3. Okonkwo’s first son, Nwoye, was then twelve years old but was already causing his father great
anxiety for his incipient laziness.

4. But he was struck, as most people were, by Okonkwo’s brusqueness in dealing with less
successful men.

5. Only a week ago a man had contradicted him at a kindred meeting which they held to discuss the
next ancestral feast.

6. But it was really not true that Okonkwo’s palm kernels had been cracked for him by a benevolent
spirit.