The document provides a vocabulary list of 9 words from chapters 14-19 of The Kite Runner, including definitions of soliloquies, garrulous, and collateral damage. It also defines melancholic, pragmatic, affable, empathy, snickered, jihad, and cursory. The list is intended to help students in their grade 10 English II Pre-AP World Literature class understand words encountered while reading the assigned chapters of The Kite Runner during the week of March 14th to 18th.
The document provides a vocabulary list of 9 words from chapters 14-19 of The Kite Runner, including definitions of soliloquies, garrulous, and collateral damage. It also defines melancholic, pragmatic, affable, empathy, snickered, jihad, and cursory. The list is intended to help students in their grade 10 English II Pre-AP World Literature class understand words encountered while reading the assigned chapters of The Kite Runner during the week of March 14th to 18th.
The document provides a vocabulary list of 9 words from chapters 14-19 of The Kite Runner, including definitions of soliloquies, garrulous, and collateral damage. It also defines melancholic, pragmatic, affable, empathy, snickered, jihad, and cursory. The list is intended to help students in their grade 10 English II Pre-AP World Literature class understand words encountered while reading the assigned chapters of The Kite Runner during the week of March 14th to 18th.
Vocabulary List The Kite Runner Chapters 14-19 Week of 03/14-03/18 soliloquies speeches in which a person talks to himself garrulous talking too much; long winded collateral damage killing of civilians or damaging of non military structures in the course of military operations such as a bombing raid melancholic gloomy;emotional;depressed pragmatic viewing things in a practical, matter of fact way affable friendly;genial; courteous and respectful of others empathy the process of mentally entering into another's feelings or motives; compassion snickered laughing in a half-repressed, disrespectful way jihad religious war of Muslims against non-believers cursory hasty; superficial