World Lit students, click on comments for this post and write the information for your assigned vocabulary word. Complete information for 4-Square vocabulary includes 1) a dictionary definition, 2) a symbol or image that represents your word, 3) two synonyms that you think that your classmates will understand, and 4) the word used in an original sentence that shows complete understanding of the word. The sentence should be about Things Fall Apart in terms of character, symbol, plot, setting or theme. NOTE: Although you are not able to post an image with your comment, simply describe the image.
Once all of the entries are made, students may wish to copy and paste the complete definition information into a Word document and print that to glue in their notebooks. Students may even want to print a second copy of the vocabulary words to make flash cards to study for the test.
Here are the vocabulary words:
egwugwu, p. 4, a masquerader who impersonates an ancestral spirit
kola nut, p. 6, (same as cola) a nut from an African tree that contains caffeine
proverb, p. 7, a short saying that expresses some obvious truth
Oracle, p. 12, any person or place believed to be in communication with a Deity (God)
agbala, p. 13, a woman; or a man who has taken no title
malevolent, p. 13, wishing evil or harm to others, “nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.”
incipient, p. 13, just beginning to exist, “incipient laziness” of Nwoye
chi, p. 18, personal god
abomination, p. 18, something hateful and disgusting
tapper, p. 20, someone who taps trees to get the sap or oil
share-cropping, p. 22, a farmer who gives part of his profits to the landowner
cassava, p. 23, tuber (root starch) often used for tapioca
Ibo (Igbo), p. 27, an African people of Southeast Nigeria
bride-price, p. 40, the money paid by the groom’s family to the bride’s family
harbingers, p. 56, a person or thing that comes before to indicate what follows
effeminate, p. 58, having characteristics usually attributed to females; unmanly
plantains, p. 63, banana
ogbanje, p. 77, a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn
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Vocabulary 4 Square
Annie Nelson- Hour 5
Chi:
1. (a cross, star of david)
2. One own's God, spirit, or soul
3. spirit, faith, soul, fortune
4. Unoka had an evil chi that followed him to his death
Cara Gulbronson
Hour 2
kola nut
1.coffe, a tree with nuts falling
2.seed,caffine,african nut,coffee
3.a highly caffinated nut used by men to signify importance.
4.as the men sit and pass the kola nut around it signifies the importance of the meeting
Patricia Liu
Hour 2
Proverbs:
1. Symbol: New Testament
2. A saying that expresses a basic truth or wisdom.
3. Saying, Precept, Maxim
4. Unoka expresses proverbs of love in his last days to his son Okonkwo.
Vocabulary 4 Square
Evan Olson- Hour 5
Egwugwu:
1. (a man wearing a mask)
2. A person wearing a mask that acts as an ancestral spirit
3. Impersonator, Actor, Thespian
4. The egwugwu danced around the fire after eating a kola nut.
Ariel Enriquez
Hour 5
Kola nut
1.(seeds, round object, nuts)
2. A nut high in caffeine shared amongst others.
3. nut, caffeine, traditional
4. The kola nut was shared between Okonkwo and the elder.
Rima Hussain
Hour 2
Share-cropping
pg 22
symbol: a farmer with overalls giving money to another man who has a lot of money in his other hand.
Definition: A farmer who gives part of his profits to the landowner.
Synonyms: Farmer, tenant, and renter.
Sentence: The farmers of Nigeria practice share-cropping.
Paul Carnahan
vocabulary
kola nut
1. a picture of a tree with nuts on it
2. seed, caffeine, native nigerian nut
3. caffeine filled nut ate by men during meetings. The nut emphasizes how the meetings are important.
4. The kola nut is native to nigeria, and eaten by men such as Okonkwo.
Vocabulary 4 square
Scott Lewis- Hour 5
Malevolent:
Definition: When someone hopes for evil or bad things to another.
Synonyms: cold-hearted, ill-treatment, cruelness
Sentence: Mother-Nature was malevolent and evil toward the farmers
Harsharn Singh
Hour 5
Plantain:
1. Picture of a banana, and banana tree
2. Its a type of fruit that grows on trees, has good potassium content.
3. food, fruit, banana,
4. Okonkwa shoots his second wife because she cut down his plantain tree. Food is important in their culture.
Ellie Satoh
Hour 5
Agbala:
1)a woman, man
2)a woman or a man who has no title
3)Feminine man, girly man
4)Unoka was an agbala man who had no title
Oracle
1. any person or place believed to be in communication with a Deity (God)
2. the pope
3. prophet, holy land
4. the igbo speak to a god through the oracle in the cave.
Gus Melcher
2nd Hour
agbala - a woman or a man without a title
Okonkwo's father was an agbala because he took no title.
Milena Mase
hour 2
Incipient:
1. a plant growing
2. Just beginning to exist
3. onset, start, initial
4. Nwoye has an incipient laziness
Abbey O'Donnell
Hour 2
Malevolent:
1. A man imagining another man dead on the ground
2. Wishing for misfortune upon others
3. Malicious, Harmful, Influence
4. Okonkwo has malevolent thoughts towards his third wife.
Danny Rose - Hour 5
ogbanje:
1. (a circular cycle of a child who repeatedly dies and is symbolically evil)
2. Wicked children are reborn to their mother in this evil cycle of birth and death.
3. Rebirth, Afterlife, Wicked, Evil, Cycle
4. The evil child who died and was reborn to his mother was an ogbanje.
Britt Robb
Hour 2
incipient
1.Okonkwo working hard and Nwoye sitting being lazy.
2.just about to start, being able to start to see it happen.
3. Starting,beginning, initiating
4. Nwoye incipient laziness reminds okonkowo of his lazy dead father.
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