English: YEAR VOCAB
Terms
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- Disparage
- speak badly of
- Excruciating
- unbearably painful
- Bewildered
- confused
- Cassava
- root veggie, aka manioc, use in foo-foo
- Sisal
- fiber for rope
- Humane
- marked by compassion
- Spendthrift
- foolishly generous person
- Frivolous
- trivial, silly
- Impulsive
- hasty
- Evasions
- avoidances
- Harmattan
- dry, dusty win from Sahara
- Luxuriant
- lush, teeming, abundantly
- Grandees
- people of high rank
- Compulsory
- mandatory
- Subordinate
- inferior
- Proclaiming
- declaring
- Improvident
- lacking foresight or thrift
- Prowess
- bravery or skill
- Pottage
- soup/stew with or without meat
- Indiscriminately
- randomly
- Squander
- spend wastefully
- Retribution
- retaliation
- Grafter
- unscrupulous person
- Impending
- imminent
- Imperious
- overbearing or arrogant
- Brusqueness
- curt, rough, abrupt
- Harbingers
- announce what will follow
- Emaciated
- thin and feeble
- Indiscreet
- not wise
- Disreputable
- dishonorable
- Alligator pepper
- spice, aka wild ginger
- Renounce
- give up, refuse, resign, (in formal declaration)
- Contraband
- illegal goods
- Naturalistic
- primitive
- Foo-foo
- dough of mashed yams or cassava
- Capricious
- whimsical or flighty
- Caprice
- a sudden change of mind because of a whim
- Intolerable
- unendurable
- Calculating
- cunning
- Palm wine
- sweet wine from sap of raffia palm tree
- Arable
- fit for growing crops
- Tactless
- undiplomatic
- Hypocrite
- poser
- Kola nut
- outside like green grapefruit, inside silver or pink- caffeine
- Abomination
- something hateful or disgusting
- Communion
- sharing thoughts and feelings
- Prostrate
- stretched out w/ face on ground (b/c adoration/submission)
- Prodigal
- extravagant person
- Trespass
- illegally enter property
- Proprieties
- decencies
- Coco-yam
- large leafed plant w/ tubers, taro in Asia
- Kite
- a type of bird
- Calabash
- dried hollow shells of gourds