West Africa Vocab

Question 1

Secede

Answer 1

formally withdraw

Question 2

pidgin

Answer 2

Simplified language used by people who cannot speak each other’s language but who need a way to communicate

Question 3

extended family

Answer 3

family made up of parents, children, and other close relatives, often of more than two generations

Question 4

infrastructure

Answer 4

underlying framework of a region (sewers, streets, etc.)

Question 5

basin

Answer 5

depressed area of land drained by a river and its tributaries

Question 6

imperialism

Answer 6

when one country seizes political control of other places to create an empire

Question 7

creole

Answer 7

when two or more languages blend so well that they mixture becomes the language of the region.

Question 8

animist

Answer 8

someone who believes in spirits, such as those of ancestors, air, earth, rivers

Question 9

kente

Answer 9

colorful, hand-woven cloth from Ghana

Question 10

harmattan

Answer 10

hot, dry Sahara wind that blows from late November until mid-March

Question 11

nuclear family

Answer 11

family made up of only parents and their children