Things Fall Apart Vocabulary Ch. 7-8

an agent or representative sent on a particular mission

• emissary

• feign

• harbinger

• suitor

set something alight, or began to burn

• threshold

• kindle

• rebuke

• haggle

to make a show or pretense of something

• expelled

• copiously

• feign

• kindle

criticized or reprimanded, usually sharply

• rebuked

• expelled

• haggle

• threshold

people or things that foreshadow or anticipate a future event

• harbingers

• suitors

• emissary

• kindled

in large quantities

• copiously

• threshold

• haggle

• emissary

pushed or drove something out with force

• expelled

• rebuked

• audacity

• devoid

a doorway or entrance

• threshold

• feign

• kindled

• listless

a man who is trying to persuade a woman to marry him

• suitor

• harbinger

• emissary

• pandemonium

to argue over something such as a price or contract in order to reach an agreement

• haggle

• communal

• feign

• rebuked