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Kite Runner Vocab Flashcards

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Vaulted

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Arched ceiling…?

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Perpetually

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Something continuous

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Scoffed

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Mock or laugh at someone

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Virtuous

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Behaving in a morally correct and pure way

Hassan

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Revving

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When an engine speeds

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Liability

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Something causing a lot of problems

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Intricacies

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Lots of details

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Dismissive

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Feeling or showing that something is unworthy of consideration

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Melee

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A big gathering of people (fight…)

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Epiphany

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A sudden perception of an insight

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Permeate

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The spreading of the tumor

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Vehemently

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Said passionately with conviction

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Nemesis

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Something that causes harm to a person

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Squabble

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Fighting meaningless fights

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Carcinoma

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Malignant tumorales /spreading cancer

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Cretin

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Really stupid

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17
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Obstinacy

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Being stubborn

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Unwittingly

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Unintentionally / without realizing

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Trepidation

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A fear and hesitation

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Gnarled

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Something old and twisted

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Demise

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The end of something or someone

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Tarpaulin

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A heavy sheet or cover

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Lumbering

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moving very slowly

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Integrity

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Being honest and firm in the believed moral principles(Baba)

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Shrouded

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To cover or wrap

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Exhilarating

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Something thrilling and joyful

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Cardamom

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An eatable kinda spice/plant

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Metastasized

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The spread of the malignant cells into other body parts

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Chastise

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To discipline someone for doing wrong / critize

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Posh

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Something that is elegant and fashionable

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Chuff

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A rustic laugh/sound

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Presumptuous

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Saying or doing something without the right or permission

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Tapestries

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a large piece of heavy cloth with a picture woven into it using colored threads.

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Stench

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An unpleasant smell

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Imminent

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Something unpleasant, likely to occur at any moment soon

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Drone

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To speak in a monotonous tone

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Jostled

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Bumping into people

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Wary

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Being watchful and cautious

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Oblivion

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The state of being completely forgotten or unknown

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Snickered

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A quiet, disrespectful laugh

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Burlap

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A thick, rough fabric that is used for making sacks

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Relic

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A surviving memory of something past

43
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Oblige

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To require or constrain something

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Haphazardly

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A lack of order and organization. Something random.

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Hunkered

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To squat on one’s heels(hunch)

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Tote

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To carry something

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Calloused

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Something hardened

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Hermorrhage

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A serious internal bleeding

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Paunchy

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A fat belly

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Irrevocably

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Something that cannot be changed or annulled or recalled

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Teeming

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A crowded place… too many moving humans /animals

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Turmoil

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A state of great commotion confusion or disturbance

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Eccentric

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Something abnormal /strange

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Morbidly

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Describing a pleasure or interest in strange things

Some people are morbidly fascinated with crimes

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