Hassan couldn’t read a first-grade textbook but he’d read me plenty. That was a little unsettling, but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed.

Amir, The Kite Runner

• Seamless– smooth and continuous.
• Muffled– not loud.
• Turnip qurma–
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• Epilepsy– a neurological disorder.
• Flannel– is a soft woven fabric.
• Crunched– crushed.
• Tar– a dark, thick flammable liquid.
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• Gashes– a long, deep cut or wound.
• Huddle– come together, gather, pile etc.
• Specter– ghost.
• Moochi– cobbler.
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• Trapdoor–
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• Outlasted– live or last longer than.
• Tugging– pulling.
• Squinting– have eyes that look in different directions.
• Jerking– move or cause to move.
• Shoved– push roughly.
• Envied– grudge,jealousy.
• Glimpse– a momentary or partial view.
• Battering– the action of striking repeatedly with hard blows.
• Lettuce–
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• Popped– make or cause to make a light explosive sound.
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• Indignation– anger or annoyance.
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• Plummeting– fall or drop straight down at high speed.
• Lurking– to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen.
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• Clinking– making a sharp ringing sound.
• Grunt– a low, short sound.
• Paghman– a district in Afghanistan.
• Panjpar- a kind of game.
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• Scratchy-rough, unpleasant.
• Grinning– smile broadly, often baring the teeth
• Shrugging-doubt, ignorance.

He knew I had betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I’d ever loved anyone, and I wanted to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn’t worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, and a thief. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

Amir, The Kite Runner

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything — that’s how it is between people who are each other’s first memories.

Amir, The Kite Runner

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