Across
- 3. Narrator of "scars"
- 6. a unit of weight for precious metals and stones such as gold and pearls, equivalent to 200 milligrams.
- 9. It is only skin deep
- 13. without opposition; with the agreement of all people involved
- 14. based on experience or experiment
- 15. a_thread of yarn
- 19. Name of Lindo's first husband
- 20. To make more efficient, improve or to sharpen
- 24. who gave the Jong family their first chess set
- 25. relating to an empire.
- 26. Waverly Jong's nickname; means little sister
- 27. to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner
- 29. victorious, conquering
- 30. not harmful in effect: in particular, (of a tumor) not malignant.
- 31. What the swan symbolizes
- 32. Drowned at the beach. Hsu family
- 33. represent joy in Asian culture
- 37. cause of Suyuan's death
- 39. being beyond what is normal or expected
- 40. a deep, narrow fissure, gorge, or breach in rock, ice, or the earth.
- 42. the muscular enlargement of the digestive tract of birds that has usually thick muscular walls and a tough thorny lining for grinding the food
- 46. ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience
- 47. a ghost or ghostlike image of a person; the appearance of something remarkable or unexpected, typically an image of this type
- 49. What Ying-Ying was to Clifford
- 50. one who puts to death
Down
- 1. the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
- 2. a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives
- 4. Where Jing-mei's mother first started the Joy Luck Club before going to America
- 5. following in order: following each other without interruption
- 6. a wool, cotton, silk, or rayon yarn with protruding pile
- 7. most common type is misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis
- 8. eyeglasses with two focal lenses
- 10. having or being like nubbles
- 11. A Chinese game played usually by four people, with 136 or 144 tiles.
- 12. traditional chinese food made with minced pork and dumpling wrappers
- 16. marked by intense emotion, activity, or instability
- 17. an individual's line of descent, family history, or the ethnic, cultural, and genetic origins from which they are descended
- 18. a chronic infectious disease caused by mycobacterium, affecting especially the skin
- 21. of relating to a meal
- 22. Named after__street. has two brothers: Vincent and Winston
- 23. the wood of any various chiefly tropical trees loosely translated as hongmu
- 28. to show to be false; contradict
- 34. respect to elders (filial piety)
- 35. absentminded daydreaming
- 36. the first narrator of the book
- 38. a light two-wheeled hooded vehicle drawn by one or more people, used chiefly in Asian countries
- 41. relating to meaning in language or logic
- 43. a principal of administrative division of certain countries or empires.
- 44. beginning to exist or develop
- 45. to burn a dead body
- 46. a block of steel, gold, silver, or other metal, typically oblong in shape
- 48. a production of the tones of a chord in succession and not simultaneously