Things fall apart
Across
- 3. wine The igbo term for fermented palm sap used for celebration and ceremony
- 7. Priestess and oracle of the goddess Agbala. Chielo is a widow and mother and is often possessed by the goddess.
- 10. The oldest man in the village in ''Things Fall Apart'' by Chinua Achebe. He serves as a repository of knowledge for the Umuofia clan, and he is a conduit for information about other clans in the area.
- 12. Ikemefuna is a fifteen-year-old boy from a neighboring clan, Mbaino, who is given up to Umuofia as a sacrifice for killing one of the women of Umuofia. He lives with Okonkwo's family for three years before the elders order him to be killed.
- 13. a vicious or depraved person; villain.
- 14. The igbo term for most valuable cash crop grown in the village
- 15. a representative sent on a mission or errand.
- 16. beginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage.
- 17. shameless or brazenly immodest.
Down
- 1. amusement or laughter
- 2. The igbo term for one of the four market days
- 4. requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult.
- 5. to represent fictitiously; put on an appearance of; to fake.
- 6. The igbo term for outcast (Having been dedicated to a god, the osu was taboo and not allowed to mix with the freeborn in any way.)
- 8. Okonkwo's best friend and also a respected man in Umuofia. He often offers reasonable counterpoints to Okonkwo's desire for rash action, although Okonkwo rarely takes his friend's advice. More than any other character, Obierika is a thinking man, one who works things out in his head.
- 9. to regard with respect tinged with awe.
- 11. dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever.
- 12. not intentional.
- 15. Okonkwo's favorite child, though she did have some competition from the ill-fated Ikemefuna, who was adopted into the family then murdered by Okonkwo.
- 18. The igbo term for musical instrument; a type of drum made from pottery