Things Fall Apart 3
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blazinbeautyashX on May 7, 2012
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Copious | Abundant or extensive in quantity |
| Cowries | A highly polished and usually brightly colored shell, used as currency in certain parts of Africa and Asia |
| Desecrate | To violate or outrage the sacred character of by destructive, blasphemous action |
| Fetish | Object that has a mental pull, power or significance |
| Harmattan | (On the west coast of Aftica) A dry dusty wind from the sahara blowing towards the West African Coast |
| Imminent | Likely to occur at any moment |
| Imperious | Domineering, arrogant, and overbeating |
| Leprosy | A chronic infectious disease resulting in disfigurement |
| Miscreant | A wrongdoer, or villian |
| Rites | A formal or ceremonial act or procedure customary in religious or other solemn use |
| Sonorous | Capable of giving out sounds, especially deep or resonant |
| Taboo (Adj) | Forbidden or disapproved of under a social prohibition or ban |
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