A Long Way Gone Flashcards
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chelsea9_4 on February 6, 2010
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These are about 44 vocabulary words throughout the book that I had to define for a project. I'm sorry if these aren't the words you need, but I hope they help someone. If you have suggestions for the words let me know and I'll see if I can change them!
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44 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ablution | (v) a cleansing with water or other liquid, esp. as a religious ritual (p. 181) |
| Brown Brown | (n) cocaine mixed with gun powder (p. 121) |
| Carseloi | (n) Spider (p. 71) |
| Cassava | (n) a nutritious starch from the roots the source of tapioca (p. 17) |
| CAW | (n) Children Associated with the War (p. 188) |
| Conakry | (n) the capital of Guinea (p. 209) |
| Crapes | (n) sneakers (p. 7) |
| G3 | (n) a weapon (p. 207) |
| Gari | (n) a grated and dried food made from cassava (p. 91) |
| Groundnut | (n) nuts from the ground (p. 188) |
| Imam | (n) holy man, official priest of the mosque (p. 44) |
| Jerry Cans | (n) a flat-sided can for storing or transporting liquids, especially gasoline, having a capacity of 5 gallons (p. 59) |
| Kalo Kalo | (n) hit and run tactics (p. 150) |
| Kamor | (n) Ishmael's grandfather was known by this (p. 8) |
| Kule | (n) open air shower (p. 177) |
| Lappei | (n) A big cotton cloth that women tie around their waist (p. 76) |
| Leweh | (n) rice paste (p. 76) |
| Lorry | (n) bus or truck (p. 10) |
| Mende | (n) One of the two major tribes in Sierra Leone (p. 55) |
| Nessie | (n) Water used to wipe of the ink from the waleh (p. 51) |
| Ngor | (pronoun) a respective term placed before the first name of adults (p. 91) |
| NGOs | (n) Non-Government Organizations (p. 196) |
| Palampo | (adj) single (p. 23) |
| Pestles | (n) Grinder hard sticks, tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar (p. 76) |
| Poda Podas | (n) mini bus (p. 185) |
| Raggamorphy | (adj) upbeat (p. 183) |
| Repatriate | (v) process of reuniting ex-child soldiers with their former communities (p. 171) |
| RPG's | (n) Rocket-Propelled Grenades (p. 24) |
| RUF | (n) Revolutionary United Front (p. 21) |
| Sackie thomboi | (n) cassava leaves with chicken (p. 181) |
| Sherbro | (n) A tribe in Sierra Leone (p. 63) |
| Sleepers | (n) flip-flops (p. 27) |
| SLPP | (n) Sierra Leone's People Party (p. 188) |
| "Sobels" | (n) AFRC/RUF (p. 203) |
| Soukous | (v) a style of central African popular dance music with electric guitars, Caribbean rhythms, and often several vocalists (p. 59) |
| Spirogyra | (n) a widely distributed filamentous freshwater green alga (p. 73) |
| Sura | (n) long prayer, any of the 14 chapters of the Koran (p. 44) |
| Tafe | (n) marijuana (p. 137) |
| Temne | (n) An African tribe living mainly in northern Sierra Leone (p. 55) |
| UN ECOSOC | (n) United Nations Economic and Social Council (p. 199) |
| United Nations First International Children's Parliament | (n) Children from all over getting together to talk about the wars in their nations (p. 195) |
| Upline | (adj) In Freetown, backwardness of the inner city, it's inhabitants, and their mannerisms (p. 184) |
| Wahlee | (n) A place outside villages where people processed coffee or other crops (p. 98) |
| Waleh | (n) Slate (p. 51) |
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