Part 1 Vocabulary
· “Mine was the gangly, unathletic kid...” p.Vll).
o Gangly: Tall, thin and awkward.
· “I had come to the subcontinent completely unprepared”. (p.Vll).
o Subcontinent: a large distinguishable part of a continent.
· “They like words like bamboozle”. ( p.VII).
o Bamboozle: Informal cheat or mystify.
· “I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation...” (p.5).
o Yogis: People who are proficient in yoga.
· “Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working...” (p.5).
o Atheistic: Disbelief in the existence of God or gods.
· “I looked as if I had been grafted with a pair of elephant legs”. (p.7).
o Grafted: An operation in which tissue is transplanted.
· “...many are sexual deviants, either terribly repressed or subject to explosions of frenzied lasciviousness or openly depraved...” (p.13).
o Lasciviousness: Feeling or revealing an overt sexual desire.
· “What palace had such a menagerie?” (p.14).
o Menagerie: A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.
· “...the only assault there at that early hour was the bats discordant concerts of squeaking and chattering”. (p.14).
o Discordant: Lacking harmony.
· “...I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs...” (p.14).
o Terraria: A vivarium for smaller land animals.
· “...the senile, lecherous expression of a camel”. (p.15).
o Lecherous: having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.
· “...a quiet witness to the highly mannered, manifold expressions of life that grace our planet”. (p.15).
o Manifold: Many and various.
· “...or going for callisthenic runs to stay slim after overindulging”. (p.15).
o Callisthenic: Gymnastic exercises to achieve bodily fitness and grace of
movement.
movement.
· “...a brief mnemonic stare from the teacher”. (p.22).
o Mnemonic: Aiding the memory.
· “You heard what they said on the esplanade”. (p.73).
Esplanade: A long, open, level area, typically beside the sea.
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