The Joy Luck Club Crossword
Across
- 6. To sharpen (a blade or one’s abilities)
- 7. fail to give true notion or impression of something; disguise or contradict
- 8. a light two-wheeled hooded vehicle drawn by one or more people
- 9. Completely in agreement
- 11. Not in agreement or harmony; incongruous
- 12. To address someone in a fierce way to express disapproval
- 13. A block of steel, gold, silver, or other metal, typically oblong in shape
- 15. Regret strongly; mourn a person’s death
- 17. What did An-Mei's mom put in the soup she fed to Popo?
- 18. A woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife; secondary wife
- 20. Grow; encourage; promote
- 23. Which corner of the table does Jing-Mei sit at in the Joy Luck Club
- 24. Arrogant; disrespectful; rude; insulting
- 28. Absentminded dreaming while awake; daydream
- 29. A quantity of paper; rebuke someone fiercely
- 30. a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation; dilemma; predicament
Down
- 1. Gloomy; subdued
- 2. What did the jade pendant Jing-Mei's mom give her represent?
- 3. Allowing some light to pass through
- 4. Money or property brought by a bride’s family to her husband
- 5. relating to meaning in language or logic
- 10. ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.
- 14. very infectious; fatal; incurable; dangerous (opposite of benign)
- 16. How many sisters did Jing-Mei have in China?
- 19. What is Waverly good at?
- 21. How many crabs did Jing-Mei's mom cook?
- 22. Traitor; disrespect for elders and ancestors
- 23. based on observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic
- 25. Respect for ancestors, elders, and family
- 26. (especially of a process or organization) just coming into existence and beginning to display signs of future potential; developing; growing; emerging
- 27. gentle and kindly; (of a disease) not harmful (opposite of malignant)