Confront

In The Kite Runner page 289, Amir gets completely beat up from head to toe and he felt "healed." This is because he finally confronted his situation of guilt with Hassan by engaging in a fight to save Sohrab (Hassan's child). Hassan fought for Amir throughout their childhood and now Amir finally fights for Hassan.

Inimical

On The Kite Runner page 289 Assef brutally wounds Amir with his inimical punches. These crused Amir's ribs, nose and teeth leaving Amir in a critical condition.

Odious

"The side of my face slamming against the corner of the television stand. That snapping sound again, this time just under my left eye. Music. Sohrab screaming. Fingers grasping my hair, pulling my head back, the twinkle of stainless steal....Sohrab screaming"(The Kite runner 288-289). In this section of the book, Sohrab has to watch the odious fighting when Assef beats up Amir.

Facet

My mother always takes her engagement ring off when she washes the dishes or works in the yard. She does this so that she wont scratch one of the facets of the diamond on her ring.

Capitulation

In many wars throughout the World's history, different sides have realized that they will not be able to win the particular war that they are in. To protect the remaining lives from being taken, they will capitulate and let their opponents win the battle.

Cerebration

Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in 19th century Europe. This book presented the cerebration of communist ideas to help the working class gain a better status.

Precipitate

The other day I was watching National Treasure. At the end of the movie the characters find themselves trapped in an underground tunnel, so they were precipitated into a situation that they weren't prepared for.

Decapitate

Louis the XVI and his wife with Marie Antoinette were not the favorite the serfs' favorite leaders. Once the serfs decided to revolt against the Monarchy, they decapitated Marie and Louis.

Elude

In the book In the Time of the Butterflies, the Butterflies contain a lot of ammunition for their revolt against the government. To elude the government officials from seeing their ammunition, they hide the ammunition.

Imbibe

Every morning I struggle to wake up. Because of this issue I imbibe coffee, which contains a lot of caffeine to make me awake and alert.

Potion

Last year we read Romeo and Juliet. In the play, Juliet has to pretend as if she has died, so she takes a sleeping potion.

Saline

In Chemistry class we have done many different labs that include different chemicals. In many of the labs we have done experiments with saline solutions like NaCl (socium chloride-salt) dissolved in water.

Herbivore

Many, many years ago dinosaurs existed on planet earth. There were two different kinds of them called herbivores, which only ate plants, and carnivores, which ate meat.

Concoct

When my brother, Wills, turned twenty years old I went to the grocery store to buy some ingredients for a cake. When I got home I concocted his birthday cake by combining all off the ingredients and putting it in the oven.

Investuture

In Julius Caesar, Caesar never had an investiture showing the romans that he became king. This is because he thrice refused the crown.

Domicile

My domicile is in a neighborhood two miles from Holy Innocents'. It is where I have lived and grown up my entire life.