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TFA Vocab Words
Dr. Marschalls TFA 2nd Set of Vocabulary Words
| Word | Definition | Sentence from book |
|---|---|---|
| Impudent | not showing proper respect for someone older | And so excitement mounted in the village as the seventh week approached since the impudent missionaries built their church in the Evil Forest. |
| Miscreant | a vicious villain | A sudden fury rose within him and felt a strong desire to take up his machete, go to the chuch and wipe out the entire vile and miscreant gang. |
| Degenearate | to fall below a normal or desirable level | How then could he have begotten a son like Nwoye, degenerate and effeminate? |
| Emanation | to flow out, issue, or proceed from an origination | It was in fact one of them [osu] who in his zeal brought the church into serious conflict with the clan a year later by killing the sacred python, the emanation of the god of water. |
| Abominable | unequivocally detestable, loathsome | Okonkwo, who had begun to play a part in the affairs of his motherland, said that until the abominable gang was chased out of the village with whips there would be no peace. |
| Blaspheme | to speak of god in an irreverent manner | When a man blasphemes, what do we do? We put our fingers into our ears to stop us hearing. |
| Ostracize | to exclude, by general consent | Everybody in the assembly spoke, and in the end it was decided to ostracize the Chrisitians. |
| Abominations | abhorrence, disgust | We would then not be accountable for their [christians] abominations |
| Perplexed | confused | "What does this all mean?" asked Mr. Kaiga, who was greatly perplexed. |
| Dispensation | a certain, order, system, government | There were man men and women in Umuofia who did not feel as strongly as Okonkwo about the new dispensation |
| Expedient | Serving to promote one's interest | Everything was possible, he told his energetic flock, but everything was not expedient |
| Idolatrous | worshiping idols | To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. |
| Bereaved | to deprive rutlessly, to take away by force | Enoch's devotion to the new faith had seemed so much greater than Mr. Brown's that the villagers called him the outsider who wept louder than the bereaved. |
| Desecrate | to divert from a sacred purpose | The other edwugwu immediately surrounded their desecrated companion, to shield him from the profane gaze of women and children, and led him away. |
| Imminent | likely ot occur at any moment | Enoch himself was greatly disappointed when he heard this, for he had hoped that a holy war was imminent; and there were a few other christians who thought like him. |
| Palaver | idle talk, chatter | He often asked them to hold such palavers, as he called them. |
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