The White Tiger "The Seventh Night"

AMP (United Kingdom)
As you read Aravind Adiga's novel, learn these lists: The First Night, The Second Night, The Fourth Morning, The Fourth Night, The Fifth Night, The Sixth Morning, The Sixth Night, and The Seventh Night.
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  1. etiquette
    rules governing socially acceptable behavior
    There was an etiquette, a routine, associated with it that fascinated me.
  2. manacle
    shackle that can be locked around the wrist
    It was a stenciled image of a pair of hands smashing its manacles: THE GREAT SOCIALIST IS COMING TO BANGALORE In a couple of weeks he arrived.
  3. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
    All of them look so emaciated—so puny.
  4. exquisite
    delicately beautiful
    They have exquisite manners, these South Indians.
  5. amenable
    disposed or willing to comply
    But the father was amenable; men are more reasonable in such matters.
  6. bereaved
    sorrowful through loss or deprivation
    I thanked him for the coffee, bowed respectfully before the bereaved mother, and left.
  7. shun
    avoid and stay away from deliberately
    Now, even if by some miracle he—or the police—didn't do that, the neighbors would have shunned them.
  8. steadfast
    marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable
    I have told you all you need to know about entrepreneurship—how it is fostered, how it overcomes hardships, how it remains steadfast to its true goals, and how it is rewarded with the gold medal of success.
  9. posh
    elegant and fashionable
    Road, which is our posh shopping road with lots of American shops and technology companies, I saw the Yahoo! people putting up a new sign outside their office: HOW BIG CAN YOU THINK?
  10. gloat
    dwell on with satisfaction
    At such times, I gloat that Mr. Ashok's family can put up a reward of a million dollars on my head, and it will not matter.
Created on Wed May 15 06:07:24 EDT 2013 (updated Fri Jun 14 12:07:05 EDT 2013)

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