A Long Way Home Vocabulary

A Long Way Home Vocabulary

Multiple Choice

But as it dawned on me that I could turn this into a painstaking, deliberate

What does the word deliberate mean?

• carefully thought over in advance; planned

• long search undertaken in order to find or realize something.

• great focus or concentration ; strong commitment

Multiple Choice

Seeing it almost as much an intellectual challenge as an emotional quest, I threw myself into solving it.

What does the word quest mean?

• carefully thought over in advance; planned

• search undertaken in order to realize something

• including everything possible; careful and complete

Multiple Choice

I found I had enormous confidence that I would find what I was looking for as long as I was thorough.

What does the word thorough mean?

• carefully thought over in advance; planned.

• long search undertaken in order to find or realize something

• including everything possible; careful and complete

Multiple Choice

I didn't want them to think that the intensity of my search revealed an unhappiness with the life they'd given me or the way they'd raised me.

What does the word intensity mean?

• great focus or concentration, strong commitment

• tending to worry so much about something that you can't think about anything else.

• without stopping with determination

Multiple Choice

I thought of the nights I spent there on the laptop as being a pastime, like playing computer games. But Lisa says even then, I was obsessive.

What does the word obsessive mean?

• great focus or concentration strong commitment

• tending to think or worry so much about something that you cannot think about anything else

• without stopping with determination

Multiple Choice

I spent months pouring over them, relentlessly, methodically.

What does the word relentlessly mean?

• great focus or concentration; strong commitment

• tending to think or worry so much about something that you can't think about anything else

• without stopping; with determination