Pick one of the passages that use igbo words or phrases and, in at least one hundred words, identify the kinds of context clues the author uses to hint at the words’ meanings.

Six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. and this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends. no ship made sail next day until some shipmate had raised a cry, three times, for each poor ghost unfleshed by the cicones on that field.