Kite Runner Vocabulary Part 2

Definition: related or connected Part of Speech: adjective Sentence from text: \"Wali and Kamal watched this exchange with something akin to fascination\" (Hosseini, 24). Forms: Suffix/Prefix: Antonym/Synonym: comparable/disconnected Example: The two friends had the same akin personality.

Definition: fastener Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"Baba says Hitler was crazy, that he ordered a lot of innocent people killed, I heard myself say before I could clamp a hand on my mouth\" (Hosseini, 8). Forms: Suffix/Prefix: Antonym/Synonym: clasp/unclamp Example: All the students clamped their hands over their mouth when they saw that one of their classmates had a black eye.

Definition: achievement, or by maneuver Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"I remember Hassan and I crouching that next morning outside my father's study, as Baba and Rahim Khan sipped black tea and listened to breaking news of the coup on Radio Kabul\" (Hosseini, 1). Forms: Suffix/Prefix: Antonym/Synonym: accomplishment/to coup Example: The smart girl told her coup news to her parents about how well she had done on her report card.

Definition: believer, follower Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"Someday, I'll make you face me one on one. Asset retreated a step. His disciples followed\" (Hosseini, 25). Forms: Discipulus Suffix/Prefix: Antonym/Synonym: witness/god Example: The boys disciples played a prank on one of their teachers and later blaming the whole thing on another classmate.

Definition: give forth, eject with force Part of Speech: verb Sentence from text: \"His hands trembled with the strain of the pulled elastic band and beads of sweat had erupted on his brow\" (Hosseini, 20). Forms: erupting Suffix/Prefix: erupt (v) Antonym/Synonym: blow up/stable Example: The quiet girl erupted with frustration when she could't take the noise anymore.

Definition: a brief period of commotion or excitement. Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"There was a flurry of rapid movement behind me\" (Hosseini, 19). Forms: flurries, flurried, flurrying Suffix/Prefix: flurr Antonym/Synonym: burst/settle Example: There was a flurry of screaming fans at the concert when the famous singer came out on stage.

Definition: imposingly grand Part of Speech: adjective Sentence from text: \"He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands\" (Hosseini, 12). Forms: grandiosely, grandioseness, grandiosity Suffix/Prefix: grand Antonym/Synonym: imposing/ordinary Example: Alicia belonged to \"the\" clique, but was seemingly less grandiose than her peers because she said \"Hello\" to me every day after 3rd Period.

Definition: to impress or fix (as a thought) deeply Part of Speech: transitive verb Sentence from text: \"You should know something about me, Hazara, Assef said gravely\" (Hosseini,25). Forms: graved, graven, graiving Suffix/Prefix: grave (n) Antonym/Synonym: inscribe/birth Example: The teacher told her students in a gravely tone how much of a pleasure it was to have them in her class this semester

Definition: directed with strained or eager attention : concentrated. Part of Speech: adjective Sentence from text: \"He searched Hassan's face intently\" (Hosseini, 24). Forms: intentness, intentingly, intentionally, intention Suffix/Prefix: intent Antonym/Synonym: hesitant/firm Example: The mom looked at her child intently after getting a call from the principal.

Definition: a subtle distinction or variation. Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"Hassan's face was my earliest memory and I knew all of its subtle nuances, knew each and every twitch and flicker that ever rippled across it.\" (Hosseini, 22). Forms: nuanced (adj) Suffix/Prefix: nuance Antonym/Synonym: distinction/assume Example: He listened to the subtle nuances in the song.

Definition: a sociopathic individual: psychopath Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath\" (Hosseini, 4). Forms: Suffix/Prefix: socio Antonym/Synonym: maniac/normal individual Example: The sociopath murdered his whole family.

Definition: to laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner: titter Part of Speech: intransitive verb Sentence from text: \"Assef snickered\" (Hosseini, 9). Forms: snickerer, snickery Suffix/Prefix: snicker Antonym/Synonym: moan/giggle Example: The girls snickered when they saw one of their classmates getting in trouble for texting on there phone under their desk.

Definition: unusual discernment or foresight. Part of Speech: noun Sentence from text: \"A man with vision\" (Hosseini, 8). Forms: visional, visionally Suffix/Prefix: vision Antonym/Synonym: shortsightedness/illusion Example: The high school student had a vision of how successful she was going to be in her career after graduating from college.