Kite Runner

Question 1

Liability

Answer 1

Someone who is a disadvantage / something for which one is held responsible

Question 2

Contrite

Answer 2

Feeling of regret and sorrow for ones sins or offenses; penitent; remorseful

Question 3

To hone

Answer 3

To sharpen, practice, and perfect a skill

Question 4

Staccato

Answer 4

Musical notes or sounds that are quick and sharp–not smoothly connected

Question 5

Entourage

Answer 5

A group of people who serve or attend to someone needs; a retinue

Question 6

Integrity

Answer 6

Faithfulness to admirable morals or standards; being whole or completely sound

Question 7

Viable

Answer 7

Capable of becoming actual, real, and useful

Question 8

Austere

Answer 8

Stern or severe in attitude or manner / very simple or plain / self-disciplined

Question 9

Chasm

Answer 9

Wide split, separation

Question 10

Harried

Answer 10

Troubles persistently with petty annoyances; agitated and distracted

Question 11

Embodiment

Answer 11

Concrete, tangible form of something that is abstract, as in “he is the embodiment of honor”

Question 12

To sluice

Answer 12

To flood, drench as in a flow of released water

Question 13

Precipitous

Answer 13

Very steep, like a precipice

Precipitously=hastily

Question 14

Guttural

Answer 14

Consonant sound uttered from the back of the mouth or throat; growl-like

Question 15

To encapsulate

Answer 15

To contain

Question 16

Acrid

Answer 16

Sharp, bitter taste or meaning

Question 17

Prognosis

Answer 17

After a diagnosis, the doctor predicts the future health in his/her prognosis

Question 18

Palliative

Answer 18

Having a calming, soothing effect

Question 19

Cursory

Answer 19

Done with careless or excessive speed (mental reading/scanning process)

Question 20

Arduous

Answer 20

Requiring difficult physical or mental effort

Question 21

To enunciate

Answer 21

Speak, utter

Question 22

Impunity

Answer 22

Immunity

Question 23

Garrulous

Answer 23

Pointlessly or annoyingly talkative; loquacious