The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1. Vocabulary for The Kite Runnerby Khaled Hosseini www.peteslingland.com/SquawValleyKiteFest4Web/thumbnails/BlueKite6824.jpg

2. unatoned • unforgiven • unable to make amends “It wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins” (1). http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/LAW/12/03/church.abuse/story.church.settlement.hug.jpg

3. unscrupulous • unprincipled • immoral www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare6/se7en.htm “…Ali…married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation…” (8).

4. retaliate • to get back at someone • evil for evil, like for like “Ali never retaliated against any of his tormentors…” (10). www.thepunisher.com/past_news/may_2004/pun_2004_0220_gunfire3x.jpg

5. obstinate • stubborn • determined • inflexible www.fursmankennels.com/images/CharlieOnRosyWeb.jpg “Of course, Baba refused, and everyone shook their heads in dismay at his obstinate ways” (13).

6. melee • brawl • skirmish • fight img.timeinc.net/time/potw/20010608/riot.jpg “…a highly skilled horseman…has to snatch a goat or cattle carcass from the midst of a melee…” (20).

7. nomads • wanderers • people with no permanent home www.csmonitor.com/2003/0714/csmimg/p7a.jpg Afghanistan “We chased the Kochi, the nomads who passed through Kabul on their way to the mountains of the north” (26).

8. imbecile • stupid person • fool “Let’s see. ‘Imbecile.’ It means smart, intelligent. I’ll use it in a sentence for you. ‘When it comes to words, Hassan is an imbecile’” (29). newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40981000/jpg/_40981774_borat_pa.jpg

9. nemesis • opponent • enemy “Rostam mortally wounds his valiant nemesis Sohrab, in battle, only to discover that Sohrab is his long-lost son” (29). img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/020418/172658__spiderman1_l.jpg

10. redemption • salvation • rebirth • recovery “All I smelled was victory. Salvation. Redemption” (65). www.houseofprayeroutreach.org/images/salvation.JPG

11. demise • death • downfall “I imagine the animal sees that its imminent demise is for a higher purpose” (77). www.mooncostumes.com/image/4957

12. insomniac • person who has trouble falling or staying asleep “‘I watched [it happen]’ I said to no one… That was the night I became an insomniac” (86). www.naturalsleepsedativeremedy.com/images/sleeplessness.jpg

13. descend • move down • come down “Karim opened the door that lead down the creaky steps to the basement. We descended in single file” (119). Descent into Kabul tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:o7WngpmAQkOMM:http://lh3.google.com/ 4j9QE0xT1QQ/RhY2XbkzAPI/AAAAAAAAA34/KqAhfVh_UtE/s800/kabullanding

14. alleviate • make easier • to relieve “And that was how Baba ended those humiliating … moments at the cash register and alleviated one of his greatest fears: that an Afghan would see him buying food with charity money” (131). www.fatladysings.us/photos/uncategorized/headache.gif

15. saunter • stroll • amble • meander • swag boomeria.org/chemlectures/qual/keepontruckin.jpg “I ran the stand sometimes as Baba sauntered down the aisle, hands respectfully pressed to his chest” (138).

16. pulmonary • affecting the lungs At the pulmonary clinic, “The visit was going well until Baba asked him where he was from. Dr. Schneider said Russia. Baba lost it” (154-155). www.wpclipart.com/medical/anatomy/lungs_diagram.png

17. palliative • soothing without curing “‘There is chemotherapy,’ [he] said, ‘but it would only be palliative’” (156). www.parkerinstitute.org/images/hospice_07.jpg

18. chastise • to criticize • to discipline rogerbourland.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/shaking_finger.jpg “And in the end the question that always came back to me was this: How could I, of all people, chastise someone for their past?” (165).

19. maladies • disorders and diseases of the body “Khala Jamila made no secret of how much she adored me. For one thing, I listened to her impressive list of maladies, something the general had long turned a deaf ear to” (177). www.medicalook.com/diseases_images/crohns_disease2.jpg

20. rubble • broken bits and pieces “Our ears became accustomed to the rumble of gunfire, our eyes familiar with the sight of men digging bodies out of piles of rubble” (212). Kabul www.ehponline.org/members/2003/111-9/rubble.jpg

21. massacre • slaughter • killing “A few weeks later, the Taliban banned kite fighting. And two years later, in 1998, they massacred the Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif” (213). patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/loved_ones_burial_us_ishaqi_massacre.jpe

22. self-righteous • smug • arrogant “Baba had said to me a long time ago: ‘Piss on the beards of all those self-righteous monkeys. They do nothing but thumb their rosaries and recite a book written in a tongue they don’t even understand’” (270).

23. remorse • regret • sorrow • guilt “And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father’s remorse… Feeding the poor…building the orphanage… it was all his way of redeeming himself” (302). library.lhs.usd497.org/Becca%20Raynes.jpg

24. mosque • Islamic place of worship “I remembered the way the mosque had jolted Sohrab from his stupor when we’d driven by it, how he’d leaned out of the window looking at it” (315). Kabul www.outtraveler.com/images/mags/10/afghan1.jpg

25. panoramic “The Dman-e-Koh Viewpoint… gives a panoramic view of Islamabad, its rows of clean, tree-lined avenues and white houses” (320). • wide, clear view Kabul www.imagesofafghanistan.com/images/Kabul%20Panorama%205%20.jpg

26. asylum • refuge • sanctuary cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/images/FalloutShelterSignLarge.gif “You could seek asylum on his behalf. That’s a lengthy process and you’d have to prove political persecution. You could request a humanitarian visa” (339).

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