A Long Way Home Vocab 1

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Illustrates 'quest':

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Damon seeks the perfect winter hike for years.

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Thorough cleaning of a room means:

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Carefully dusting and vacuuming every inch.

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Illustrates intensity:

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Susan spent 2 hours a night for 1 month studying for the spelling bee.

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Runner trains relentlessly for a race.

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Exercises intensely and constantly.

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Obsessive behavior example:

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Jody studies constantly, never stops thinking about school.

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Deliberate decision to study more likely means:

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Set a study schedule and follow it daily.

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In A Long Way Home, the narrator uses Google Earth to find his home by starting at Kolkata and searching train lines outward.

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He starts at Kolkata and searches the train lines working outward.

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In A Long Way Home, why does the narrator's girlfriend close his laptop?

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She believes he is becoming too obsessed.

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First landmark found by the narrator in A Long Way Home that suggests he may have found his destination.

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a water tower

Front

Narrowing the search field after a long train journey from Howrah.

Back

He guesses his home was less than fifteen hours from Howrah.