Homeless Bird ch. 1-4 Vocabulary
Across
- 5. a small two-wheeled cart for a couple of passengers
- 7. father-in-law in India
- 8. producing no results, useless
- 9. a long journey to a sacred place
- 11. to go without food to serve a purpose
- 16. decorating with needlework
- 18. social division that Hindu people are born into
- 19. showing silent resentment: to sulk
- 22. money or goods that a wife brings to her husband at marriage
- 23. to give something up for the sake of something else
- 25. mother-in-law in India
Down
- 1. Hindu holy men
- 2. mom in India
- 3. a Hindu god
- 4. A Muslim place of worship
- 6. rope bed
- 10. the season in India when winds blow from the southwest bringing heavy rains
- 12. disease attacking the lungs
- 13. a group of people moving forward in an orderly fashion
- 14. spread made from melted butter
- 15. a person who writes things down
- 17. a person who arranges marriages
- 19. a brightly colored cloth worn by many Indian women that is draped over the body like a long dress
- 20. necklace of flowers
- 21. dad in India
- 24. to incinerate ( a corpse)