Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (The Passport and Kim Wilde--Chs. 16 & 17)

Kelly Cook (United States of America)
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  1. ministry
    a government department
  2. blunt
    characterized by directness in manner or speech
  3. pathetic
    deserving or inciting pity
  4. veritable
    being truly so called; real or genuine
  5. counterrevolutionary
    a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
  6. Palestine
    an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
  7. shish kebab
    cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer
  8. Istanbul
    the largest city and former capital of Turkey
  9. Frankenstein
    the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
  10. Malcolm X
    militant civil rights leader (1925-1965)
  11. Nike
    winged goddess of victory; identified with Roman Victoria
  12. Michael Jackson
    United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958)
  13. Julio Iglesias
    Spanish singer noted for his ballads and love songs
  14. permissive
    not strict in discipline
Created on Tue Nov 05 12:05:58 EST 2013 (updated Sat Dec 14 18:43:22 EST 2013)

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