TFA Vocab

Question 1

agadi-nwayi

Answer 1

an old women

Question 2

agbala

Answer 2

women; also used for a man who has no social 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 women

Question 10

foo foo

Answer 10

food made from yams that serves a chief role in the annual Feast of 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

iwi-uwa

Answer 15

a special kind of stone that forms a link between an ogbanje and the spirit world; only if the iyi-uwa were discovered and destroyed would the child not die

Question 16

jigida

Answer 16

string of waist beads worn by women

Question 17

kola nut

Answer 17

food used to great visitors and guests

Question 18

kwenu

Answer 18

shout of approval and greeting

Question 19

ndiche

Answer 19

elders

Question 20

nna ayi

Answer 20

our fathers

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 of manslaughter

Question 27

ogbanje

Answer 27

a changeling; a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn. it is almost impossible to bring up a blank child without dying, unless its iwi-uwa is first found and destroyed

Question 28

ogene

Answer 28

musical instrument; a kind of gong

Question 29

oji odu achu-ijiji-o

Answer 29

cow

Question 30

osu

Answer 30

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

Question 31

oye

Answer 31

one of the four market days

Question 32

ozo

Answer 32

the name of one of the four titles or ranks

Question 33

palm wine

Answer 33

fermented palm sap used for celebration and ceremony

Question 34

tufia

Answer 34

a curse or oath

Question 35

udu

Answer 35

musical instrument; a type of drum made from pottery

Question 36

uli

Answer 36

a dye used by women for drawing patterns on the skin

Question 37

umuada

Answer 37

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

Question 38

umunna

Answer 38

a wide group of kinsmen

Question 39

uri

Answer 39

part of the betrothal ceremony when the dowry is paid

Question 40

yam

Answer 40

edible root; most valuable cash crop grown in the village