| A | B |
| Ashanti | an African tribe |
| laundry | clothes to be cleaned |
| stunt | to keep from growing |
| embroidered | sewing pictures with thread |
| wealth | richness |
| mocha | coffee with a chocolate taste |
| offend | make someone feel bad |
| pinstripe | a striped pattern on cloth |
| funerals | ceremonies for the dead |
| grubby | dirty |
| Yemen | a Middle Eastern country |
| royalty | related to a king or queen |
| flourish | done in a showy way |
| joy | happiness |
| imagine | create in your mind |
| Africa | a continent |
| symbols | things that stand for other things |
| collector | a person who gathers things |
| seriousness | not kidding around |
| collection | things gathered together |
| adinkra | cloth made in Ghana, Africa |