Persepolis: The Story of a Return (The Socks and The Wedding--Chs. 16 & 17)

Kelly Cook (United States of America)
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  1. obscene
    offensive to the mind
  2. subversion
    the act of overthrowing or destroying, as a government
  3. pretext
    a fictitious reason that conceals the real reason
  4. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  5. schizophrenic
    of a psychotic disorder marked by distortions of reality
  6. semblance
    the outward or apparent appearance or form of something
  7. equilibrium
    a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
  8. spiel
    artful or slick talk used to persuade
  9. tempered
    made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment
  10. withered
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  11. detest
    dislike intensely
  12. Mullah
    a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam
  13. folklore
    the unwritten stories and proverbs and songs of a culture
  14. emancipated
    free from traditional social restraints
Created on Tue Nov 05 16:03:17 EST 2013 (updated Sat Dec 14 18:43:42 EST 2013)

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