TFA English Vocab List

Question 1

agadi-nwayi

Answer 1

an old woman

Question 2

agbala

Answer 2

woman; also used for a man who has taken on title

Question 3

ani

Answer 3

earth goddess

Question 4

chi

Answer 4

personal god

Question 5

efulefu

Answer 5

worthless man

Question 6

egwugwu

Answer 6

masquerader who impersonates one of the ancestral spirits of the village

Question 7

ekwe

Answer 7

type of drum made from wood

Question 8

eneke-nti-oba

Answer 8

a kind of bird

Question 9

eze-agadi-nwayi

Answer 9

the teeth of an old woman

Question 10

foo foo

Answer 10

food made from yarns that serves a chief role in the annual Feast of the New Yam

Question 11

iba

Answer 11

fever

Question 12

ilo

Answer 12

the village green where assemblies for sports, discussions, and so on take place

Question 13

inyanga

Answer 13

showing off, bragging

Question 14

isa-fi

Answer 14

if a wife had been separated from her husband for some time and were then to be reunited with him, this ceremony would be held to ascertain that she had not been unfaithful to him during the time of their separation

Question 15

iei-uwa

Answer 15

a special kind of stone that forms the link between an ogbanje and the spirit world; only if the iyi-uwa were discovered

Question 16

jigida

Answer 16

string of waist beads worn by women

Question 17

kola nut

Answer 17

food used to greet visitors and guests

Question 18

kwenu

Answer 18

shout of approval and greeting

Question 19

ndichie

Answer 19

elders

Question 20

nna ayi

Answer 20

our father

Question 21

nno

Answer 21

welcome

Question 22

nso-ani

Answer 22

a religious offense of a kind abhorred by everyone, literally earth’s taboo

Question 23

nza

Answer 23

a very small bird

Question 24

obi

Answer 24

large living quarters of the head of the family

Question 25

obodo dike

Answer 25

the land of the brave

Question 26

ochu

Answer 26

murder or manslaughter

Question 27

ogbanje

Answer 27

a changeling; a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be beborn. It is almost impossible to eing up an ogbanje child without it dying, unless its iyi-iwa is first found and destroyed

Question 27

ogene

Answer 27

musical instrument; a kind of gong

Question 28

oji odu achu-ijiji-o

Answer 28

cow (i.e., the one that uses its tail to drive flies away)

Question 29

oso

Answer 29

an outcast; having been dedicated to a god, the OSU was taboo and was not allowed to mix with the freeborn in any way

Question 30

oye

Answer 30

one of the 4 market days

Question 31

ozo

Answer 31

the name of one of the four work titles or ranks

Question 32

palm wine

Answer 32

fermented palm sap used for celebration and ceremony

Question 33

tufia

Answer 33

a curse or oath

Question 34

udu

Answer 34

musical instrument; a type of drum made from pottery

Question 35

uli

Answer 35

a dye used by women for drawing patterns on the skin

Question 36

umunada

Answer 36

a family gathering of daughters, for which the female kinsfolk return to their village or origin

Question 37

umunna

Answer 37

a wide group of kinsmen (the masculine form of the word umunada)

Question 38

uri

Answer 38

part of the betrothal ceremony when the dowry is paid

Question 39

yam

Answer 39

edible root; most valuable cash crop grown in the village