Things Fall Apart

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• brusqueness an abrupt discourteous manner
• capricious changeable
• communal for or by a group rather than individuals
• consolation the comfort you feel when soothed in times of disappointment
• contemptible deserving of scorn or disrespect
• contradict deny the truth of
• deft skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
• despair a state in which all hope is lost or absent
• discern perceive, recognize, or detect
• dominate be in control
• emissary someone sent to represent another's interests
• fond having or displaying warmth or affection
• imperious having or showing arrogant superiority
• improvident not supplying something useful for the future
• incipient only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
• industry persevering determination to perform a task
• inflexible resistant to being bent
• perpetual uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children.
• poverty the state of having little or no money and possessions. He was talking about Okonkwo, who had risen so suddenly from great poverty and misfortune to be one of the lords of the clan.
• prosperity the condition of having good fortune
• provoke call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
• prowess a superior skill learned by study and practice
• repentant feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds
• resent feel bitter or indignant about
• restraint discipline in personal and social activities
• severe causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
• stammer a speech disorder involving hesitations and repetitions. He had a slight stammer and whenever he was angry and could not get his words out quickly enough, he would use his fists.
• strive exert much effort or energy

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