Shooting Kabul Vocabulary Assignment
Directions: Choose four words from the list below for each chapter. On a separate piece of
paper write the word, copy the sentence in which it was used in the novel (include the page
number), write the definition, then write your own original sentence.
For example: Desolate: Fadi pressed his nose against the cold glass, peering across the desolate
landscape. (pg. 2) Definition: deserted, cheerless, gloomy Original: When the team lost the final
match, they were desolate.
Ch. 1- Brooding, desolate, quavering, phenomenally, impertinence, apprehension, optimism,
oppression
Ch. 2- renowned, human traffickers, stagnant, refugees, instinctively, dispersing
Ch. 3- asylum, expanse, ember, anguished, reverberated, complimentary, resembling, cajoled,
fragmented, irritation, factions, corrupt, reputations, coaxed, withered, morose
Ch. 4- cavernous, perpetual, jovial, merged, decency
Ch. 5- billowing, descended, initially, cocooned, solemn
Ch. 6- teetered, weary, inquiries, resolution, hospitality, immigrating, claustrophobia
Ch.7- fraying, unease, dispatcher, bearings, persisted, cacophony
Ch. 8- moaned, soothed, mercurial, descended, formulated, clambered, forays
Ch. 9- anticipation, permeated, myriad, tentative, informal, pungent, gangly
Ch. 10- echoing, jangled, departure, elevation, berated, perspiration
Ch.11- crotchety, wary, tarmac, shrouded, thoroughfare, deflated, visa, embassy, sufficiently
Ch. 12- calculated, preoccupied, escapade, whack, dazed, fragmented
Ch. 13- stark, terrorism, retribution, emerge, reluctantly, affiliated, prophesied, foreboding
Ch. 14- stragglers, mimicked, exasperation, composition, elements, contemplative
Ch. 15- façade, accommodate, jowls, perpetrators, melodious, slew, cavernous, sprawling,
undercurrent
Ch. 16- exasperated, paltry, unfurled
Ch. 17- innards, cylindrical, desolate, haste
Ch. 18- blotches, riffled, suffocated, evaporated, reacquainted, vigilant
Ch. 19- immobilized, intertwined, tufts, impending, simmering, adrift
Ch. 20- artificial, illumination, tribulations, gauzy, intrigued, wreathed, elation
Ch.21- jagged, hankering, persevered, devotion, detoured, marred, wryly
Ch. 22- notification, rumpled, glimmer, urging, elicited, gasps, consent, skimming, probability,
bile, numbness
Ch. 23- retreated, kaleidoscope, sorrow, mingled, winced, nasally, secluded, peering, resigned,
halt, bigot, euphoria, disintegrated
Ch. 24- fate, jumble, disjointed, trudged, anise, contemplated, philosophizing, resolve,
crystallized
Ch. 25- revealing, whirling, plunged, throngs, majestic, cavernous, fidgeted, solemnly, startle,
turbulent, humdinger, transfixed