Things Fall Apart Chapter Vocab 1-4

Harmattan: Noun 

the dry desert wind

Improvident- Adjective:

Not having foresight

Cowries- Noun

shell used as currency

Haggard- Adjective

Appearing worn and exhausted

Mirth, Noun:

Laughter, joyful amusement

imperious: Adjective:

arrogantly domineering; overbearing

emissary - Noun:

characterized by good doing

perpetual- adjective

never-ending or unchanging

capricious- Adjective:

impulsive and unpredicable

Incipient- Adjective:

Beginning stages of anything

brusqueness- Noun:

abrupt and curt manner; blunt

kindred - noun or adjective

Familiar people

Benevolent- Adjective:

characterized by doing good