Things Fall Apart Vocabulary
Across
- 2. To have exceptional or superior ability
- 5. The main character of Things Fall Apart
- 7. History before missionaries arrived
- 8. Okonkwo's oldest son
- 13. To make amends after committing a crime
- 14. Individuals sent to promote Christianity in a foreign land
- 15. Protection from danger
- 17. To adopt a different religion, political doctrine or opinion
- 18. Large living quarters of the head of the family
- 19. Expressing kind feelings and eagerness to help others
- 21. Elders
- 23. Woman or man with no title
- 24. To express sharp disapproval of
- 26. The village green where assemblies for sports, discussions, and so on take place
Down
- 1. Someone showing remorse for their past actions
- 3. Expressing grief or sorrow
- 4. colonial History after missionaries arrived
- 6. A great misfortune or disaster
- 9. A child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn
- 10. Worthless man
- 11. Showing little or no interest
- 12. To pretend to be something
- 16. Daughter of Okonkwo's second wife
- 20. Okonkwo's second wife
- 22. Avoiding work or being lazy
- 25. Masquerader who impersonates ancestral spirits