Across
- 4. the action the women have been taught to do
- 5. The central theme of the poem, reflecting the women's diminishing self-worth.
- 6. The mother's beverage of choice.
- 8. the process of adapting or adjusting to someone or something
Down
- 1. how she starts a question in genetics class
- 2. what the speaker believes inheritance to be
- 3. an immense space
- 4. How the speaker describes her mother in the dark
- 6. (of the moon) have a progressively smaller part of its visible surface illuminated, so that it appears to decrease in size.
- 7. The speaker's brother's name