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Kite Runner Vocab Flashcards

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Intricate

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Having many parts … Complex

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Notoriously

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Very well known

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Unscrupulous

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Not honest/fair : doing things that are wrong

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Congenital

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Disease existing since birth

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Rendered

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To cause something to be in a specified condition

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Oscillating

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To move in one direction, and then back

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Reveries

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A state in which you are in when thinking about pleasant things

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk a lot

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Veracity

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The quality of being truthful

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Obstinate

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Refusing to change your behavior

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Havoc

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A situation with a lot of destruction/confusion

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Virtuous

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Morally good

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Chortle

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To laugh because you are amused or pleased by something

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Aloofness

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At a distance

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Melee

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A confused struggle involving many people

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Valiant

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Having or showing courage

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Contrite

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Feeling or showing regret for bad behavior

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Impeccable

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Free from fault or error

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Vehemently

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Showing strong and often angry feelings

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Imbecile

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A very stupid person

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Nemesis

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An opponent or enemy that is very difficult to defeat

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Oblivious

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Not conscious or aware of someone/something

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Feigned

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Not genuine or real

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Irony

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Use of words that mean the opposite of what you really think

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Subtle

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Hard to notice or see

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Nuances

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A very small difference in color, tone, or meaning

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Trepidation

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A feeling of fear that causes you to hesitate because you think something bad is going to happen

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Abhor

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To dislike something very much

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Indignation

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Anger caused by something that is unfair

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Integrity

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The quality of being honest and fair

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Curtly

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Said in a quick, impolite way

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Shirked

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Avoid doing something that you are supposed to do

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Austere

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Simple and plain

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Morose

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Of a person : very serious, unhappy, and quiet

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Imminent

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Happening very soon

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Guileless

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Very innocent

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Insomniac

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A person not being able to sleep

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Harried

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Bothered by many problems or worries

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Anonymity

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Quality of being unknown to most people

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Interlude

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Period of time between events

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Embodiment

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Something that is a perfect representation

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Facade

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Way of behavior : front of a building

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Alter ego

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Different version of yourself

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Affluent

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Having a large amount of money or expensive things

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Blood money

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Money wrongly obtained by killing someone or because someone has died

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Grimace

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Facial expression in which your mouth and face are twisted in a way that shows disgust or disapproval

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Lucrative

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Producing money or wealth

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Inevitable

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Sure to happen, incapable of being avoided

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Acrid

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Bitter and unpleasant in taste or smell

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Pungent

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Having a strong, sharp taste or smell, having a strong effect on the mind

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Sauntered

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To walk along in a slow and relaxed manner

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Legacy

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Something that is received from someone who died– something that happened in the past

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Arrogant

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Having an insulting attitude- of people who believe they are more important than others

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Perpetually

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Continuing forever or for a very long time

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Fickle

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Changing very often

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Sallow

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Slightly yellow in a way that doesn’t look healthy

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Ominous

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Suggestion that something bad is going to happen in the futur

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Palliative

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Make the effect of something less painful

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Reticence

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The quality of not willing to tell people about certain things

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Demeanor

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A persons appearance/behavior : the way someone seems to be to others

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Furtive

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Done in a quiet & secretive way to avoid being noticed

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Daunting

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Tending to make people afraid or less confident: very difficult to do or deal with

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Meticulous

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Very careful about doing something in an extremely accurate and exact way

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Ambivalent

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Having contradictory feelings toward an object , person or action

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Nonchalantly

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Relaxed and calm in a way that shows that you do not care & are not worried

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Incessant

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Continuing without stopping

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Collateral

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Related but not in a direct or close way

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Melancholic

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Very sad

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Wallow

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Spend time enjoying something without making an effort to change your situation

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Pragmatic

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Dealing with problems that exist in a specific situation in a reasonable way

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Presumptuous

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Too confident especially in a rude way

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Proverbial

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Of, relating to, commonly spoke of, widely known

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Oblivion

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The state of something that is not remembered, used or thought about anymore

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Empathy

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The feeling that you understand and share a persons experiences and emotions

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Animosity

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A strong feeling of dislike or hatred

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Surly

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Rude and unfriendly

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Rueful

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Feeling regret for something done

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Deliberate

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To think about or discuss something very carefully in order to make a decision

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Ruminate

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To think carefully and deeply about something

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Contemptuous

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feeling or showing deep hatred or disapproval : feeling of contempt

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Morosely

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Of a person: very seriously, unhappily and quietly

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Benevolence

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Disposition to do good/ and act of kindness

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Profoundly

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Having or sowing great knowledge or understanding

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Gingerly

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Very cautious or careful

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Succulent

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Being full of juice

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Morbidly

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Relating to unpleasant subjects, not healthy or normal (dying)

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Surreal

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Very strange or unusual : having the quality or a dream

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Epiphany

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A moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way

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