The Kite Runner End of Unit AVD Assessment

unclean, especially as a result of neglect: wretched or miserable: poverty stricken

• squalid

• surmount

• stifle

• garrulous

to cut off, withhold, or smother: to not allow oneself to do or express (something): to stop someone from doing or expressing something: to make something difficult or impossible

• tantamount

• obstinate

• surmount

• stifle

being essentially equal to something: equivalent

• discreet

• unscrupulous

• tantamount

• surmount

bad tempered, gloomy or withdrawn

• contemptuous

• obstinate

• furtive

• morose

everyday common language used by ordinary people in a specific country or locality

• temerity

• animosity

• vernacular

• discretion

 kind and generous: marked by or disposed to doing good

• benevolent

• squalid

• morose

• reticent

overcome difficulty or obstacle;

to stand or be placed on top of

• tantamount

• abhor

• stifle

• surmount

the quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information 

• discretion

• temerity

• insinuate

• animosity

unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition: rashness or recklessness: excessive confidence or boldness: audacity.

• ambiguous

• furtive

• luminous

• temerity

 open to having several possible meanings or interpretations

• austere

• plight

• ambiguous

• obstinate