Joy Luck Club Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. expresses regret
  2. 6. unpleasant sounding
  3. 7. critical or belittling
  4. 9. short for "child prodigy" — someone who is a master of a skill at an early age
  5. 11. unreasonable
  6. 13. something that helps one pretend (in this case, pretend that the room is needed)
  7. 14. used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
  8. 17. with kindness
  9. 19. relating in a meaningful way to the issue in question
  10. 20. distress (at not knowing how to improve a bad situation)
Down
  1. 1. reluctantly complied
  2. 2. someone who fled their homeland
  3. 4. money or property given by a woman's family to the husband at marriage
  4. 5. a large roofed structure without walls
  5. 8. uninterested
  6. 10. greatly annoyed
  7. 12. deep regret for doing something that was wrong
  8. 15. serious—without humour or fun
  9. 16. deeply respect and admire
  10. 18. religious