Transcript The Kite Runner Vocabulary

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
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unatoned
• unforgiven
• unable to make amends
“It wasn’t just Rahim
Khan on the line.
It was my past of
unatoned sins” (1).
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unscrupulous
• unprincipled
• immoral
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“…Ali…married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years
younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman
who lived up to her dishonorable reputation…” (8).
retaliate
• to get back at someone
• evil for evil, like for like
“Ali never retaliated
against any of his
tormentors…” (10).
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obstinate
• stubborn
• determined
• inflexible
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“Of course, Baba refused, and everyone shook their
heads in dismay at his obstinate ways” (13).
• brawl
• skirmish
• fight
“…a highly skilled horseman…has to snatch a goat
or cattle carcass from the midst of a melee…” (20).
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melee
nomads
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• wanderers
• people with no permanent home
Afghanistan
“We chased the
Kochi, the nomads
who passed through
Kabul on their way
to the mountains of
the north” (26).
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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).
nemesis
• opponent
• enemy
“Rostam mortally
wounds his valiant
nemesis Sohrab, in
battle, only to discover
that Sohrab is his longlost son” (29).
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redemption
• salvation
• rebirth
• recovery
“All I smelled was
victory. Salvation.
Redemption” (65).
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demise
• death
• downfall
“I imagine the
animal sees that its
imminent demise is
for a higher
purpose” (77).
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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).
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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
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alleviate
• make easier
“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).
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• to relieve
saunter
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• stroll
• amble
• meander
• swag
“I ran the stand sometimes as Baba sauntered down the
aisle, hands respectfully pressed to his chest” (138).
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).
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palliative
• soothing without curing
“‘There is chemotherapy,’
[he] said, ‘but it would
only be palliative’” (156).
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chastise
• to criticize
• to discipline
“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).
maladies
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• 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).
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
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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).
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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).
remorse
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• 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).
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
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panoramic
“The Dman-e-Koh Viewpoint… gives a
panoramic view of Islamabad, its rows of clean,
tree-lined avenues and white houses” (320).
Kabul
• wide,
clear view
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asylum
• refuge
• sanctuary
“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).
The End
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