Your father, like you, was a tortured soul, Amir jan.
1.And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.
2.As for me, it is time to go. I have little time left and I wish to spend it alone. Please do not look for me. That's my final request of you.
1.poke
poke1 /p??k? /
verb
1 [with obj.] jab or prod (someone or something) with one's finger or a sharp object:
he poked Benny in the ribs and pointed
[no obj.] they sniffed, felt, and poked at everything they bought.
(on the social networking site Facebook) attract the attention of (another member of the site) by using the ‘poke’ facility.
prod and stir (a fire) with a poker to make it burn more fiercely:
she drew the curtains then poked the fire into a blaze.
make (a hole) in something by prodding or jabbing at it:
don't forget to poke holes in the dough to allow steam to escape.
vulgar slang (of a man) have sexual intercourse with (a woman).
2 [with obj. and adverbial of direction] thrust (something, such as one's head) in a particular direction:
I poked my head around the door to see what was going on.
[no obj., with adverbial] protrude and be visible:
she had wisps of grey hair poking out from under her bonnet.
noun
1 an act of poking someone or something:
she gave the fire a poke.
vulgar slang an act of sexual intercourse.
2 (a poke round/around) informal a look or search around a place:
his mother comes into his room sometimes and has a poke round.
3 [mass noun] Brit. informal power or acceleration in a car:
I expect you'd prefer something with a bit more poke.
4 (also poke bonnet) a woman's bonnet with a projecting brim or front, popular especially in the early 19th century.
–PHRASES
be better than a poke in the eye with a sharp (or Austral. burnt) stick humorous
be welcome or pleasing:
I got a tax rebate—not a huge amount but better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
poke fun at
tease or make fun of:
this film pokes fun at Stalinism and the army which supported it.
poke one's nose into informal
take an intrusive interest in:
it's not like you to poke your nose into areas that don't concern you.
take a poke at someone informal
hit or punch someone.
criticize someone:
he took a poke at the tournament's sponsors, a cigarette company.
–PHRASALVERBS
poke about/around informal look around a place, typically in search of something:
she poked about in the cupboard for a minute or two.
–ORIGIN Middle English: origin uncertain; compare with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German poken, of unknown ultimate origin. The noun dates from the late 18th cent.
2.rouge
rouge1 /ru??? /
noun
1 [mass noun] a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for colouring the cheeks or lips:
she wore patches of rouge on her cheeks.
2 short for jeweller's rouge.
verb [with obj.] (often as adj. rouged) colour with rouge:
her brightly rouged cheeks.
[no obj.] archaic apply rouge to one's cheeks:
she rouged regularly now.
adjective (of wine) red.
–ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting the colour red): from French, ‘red’, from Latin rubeus. The cosmetic term dates from the mid 18th cent.
3.smeared
smear /sm??? /
verb [with obj.]
1 coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance:
his face was smeared with dirt.
[with obj. and adverbial] spread (a greasy or sticky substance) over something:
she smeared sunblock on her skin.
messily blur the outline of (something such as writing or paint); smudge:
her lipstick was smeared.
2 damage the reputation of (someone) by false accusations; slander:
someone was trying to smear her by faking letters.
noun
1 a mark or streak of a greasy or sticky substance:
there was an oil smear on his jacket.
2 a sample of tissue or other material taken from part of the body, spread thinly on a microscope slide for examination, typically for medical diagnosis:
the smears were stained for cryptosporidium.
Brit. short for smear test.
3 a false accusation intended to damage someone's reputation:
the popular press were indulging in unwarranted smears.
4 Climbing an insecure foothold:
soon you're eyeballing the top, just one smear away.
–DERIVATIVES smearer noun
smeary adjective
(smearier, smeariest)
–ORIGIN Old English smierwan (verb), smeoru ‘ointment, grease’, of Germanic origin; related to German schmieren (verb), Schmer (noun).
4.lanky
lanky /?la?ki? /
adjective
(lankier, lankiest)
(of a person) ungracefully thin and tall.
–DERIVATIVES lankily adverb
lankiness noun
5.hunched
hunch /h?n(t)?? /
verb [with obj.] raise (one's shoulders) and bend the top of one's body forward:
Eliot hunched his shoulders against a gust of snow.
[no obj.] sit or stand with one's shoulders raised and the top of one's body bent forward:
he hunched over his glass.
noun
1 a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact:
I have a hunch that someone is telling lies.
2 a humped position or thing:
the hunch of his back.
3 dialect a thick piece; a hunk:
a hunch of bread.
–ORIGIN late 15th cent.: of unknown origin. The original meaning was ‘push, shove’ (noun and verb), a sense retained now in Scots as a noun, and in US dialect as a verb. Sense 1 of the noun derives probably from a US sense of the verb ‘nudge someone in order to draw attention to something’.
6.specimen
specimen /?sp?s?m?n? /
noun
1 an individual animal, plant, piece of a mineral, etc. used as an example of its species or type for scientific study or display:
specimens of copper ore.
an example of something regarded as typical of its class or group:
[as modifier] a specimen paper of the new test.
a sample for medical testing, especially of urine.
2 informal used to refer humorously to a person or animal:
Carla could not help feeling a degree of reluctant admiration for this odd female specimen.
–ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in the sense ‘pattern, model’): from Latin, from specere ‘to look’.
7.withered
wither /?w?e?? /
verb
1 [no obj.] (of a plant) become dry and shrivelled:
the grass had withered to an unappealing brown
(as adj. withered) withered leaves.
(of a part of the body) become shrunken or wrinkled from age or disease:
(as adj. withered) a girl with a withered arm.
2 [no obj.] fall into decay or decline:
it is not true that old myths either die or wither away.
[with obj.] cause to decline or deteriorate; weaken:
a business that can wither the hardiest ego.
(wither away) (of the state in Marxist theory) cease to exist because no longer necessary after the dictatorship of the proletariat has implemented the necessary changes in society:
the state in socialist societies has failed to wither away.
3 [with obj.] humiliate (someone) with a scornful look or manner:
she withered him with a glance.
–PHRASES
wither on the vine
fail to be implemented or dealt with because of inaction:
that resolution clearly withered on the vine.
–ORIGIN late Middle English: apparently a variant of weather, ultimately differentiated for certain senses.
8.snout
snout /sna?t? /
noun
1 the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal:
a sea lion balanced a ball on its snout.
informal a person's nose:
a guard with a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout.
the projecting front or end of something such as a pistol:
he was stopped by the snout of her pistol.
2 Brit. informal a cigarette.
[mass noun] tobacco.
3 Brit. informal a police informer:
his arrest had been the work of some anonymous snout.
4 (also snout moth) a European moth with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout.
Hypsena and other genera, family Noctuidae, in particular the snout (H. proboscidalis).
–DERIVATIVES snouted adjective
[often in combination] long-snouted baboons
snouty adjective
–ORIGIN Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German snūt; related to snot.
9.steamy
steamy /?sti?mi? /
adjective
(steamier, steamiest)
1 producing, filled with, or clouded with steam:
a small steamy kitchen.
(of a place) hot and humid:
the hot, steamy jungle.
2 informal depicting or involving passionate sexual activity:
steamy sex scenes
a steamy affair.
–DERIVATIVES steamily adverb
steaminess noun
10.armband
armband /?ɑ?mband? /
noun a band worn around a person's upper arm to hold up a shirtsleeve or as a form of identification.
an inflatable plastic band worn around a person's upper arm as a swimming aid.
11.abdominal
abdominal /ab?d?m?n(?)l? /
adjective relating to the abdomen:
abdominal pain.
noun (usu. abdominals) an abdominal muscle:
Pilates greatly benefits the lower abdominals.
–DERIVATIVES abdominally adverb
12.splenectomy
splenectomy /spl??n?kt?mi? /
noun
(pl. splenectomies)
a surgical operation involving removal of the spleen:
he needs a splenectomy.
[mass noun] both patients underwent splenectomy and made full recoveries.
13.pneumothorax
pneumothorax /?nju?m?(?)?θ??raks? /
noun [mass noun] Medicine the presence of air or gas in the cavity between the lungs and the chest wall, causing collapse of the lung.
14.laceration
laceration /las??re??(?)n? /
noun a deep cut or tear, especially in skin; a gash:
he suffered lacerations to his head and face.
[mass noun] the action of lacerating something, especially skin.
15.orbital
orbital /???b?t(?)l? /
adjective relating to an orbit or orbits.
Brit. (of a road) passing round the outside of a town.
noun
1 Brit. an orbital road.
2 Physics each of the actual or potential patterns of electron density which may be formed in an atom or molecule by one or more electrons, and can be represented as a wave function.
–DERIVATIVES orbitally adverb
–ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (referring to the eye socket): probably from medieval Latin orbitalis, from Latin orbita (see orbit).
16.rupture
rupture /?r?pt??? /
verb
1 [no obj.] (especially of a pipe or container, or bodily part such as an organ or membrane) break or burst suddenly:
if the main artery ruptures he could die.
[with obj.] cause to break or burst suddenly:
the impact ruptured both fuel tanks.
(be ruptured or rupture oneself) suffer an abdominal hernia:
one of the boys was ruptured and needed to be fitted with a truss.
2 [with obj.] breach or disturb (a harmonious feeling or situation):
once trust and confidence has been ruptured it can be difficult to regain.
noun
1 an instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely:
a small hairline crack could develop into a rupture
[mass noun] the patient died after rupture of an aneurysm.
an abdominal hernia.
2 a breach of a harmonious relationship:
the rupture with his father would never be healed.
–ORIGIN late Middle English (as a noun): from Old French rupture or Latin ruptura, from rumpere ‘to break’. The verb dates from the mid 18th cent.
17.strutted
strut /str?t? /
noun
1 a rod or bar forming part of a framework and designed to resist compression:
a supporting strut.
a spindly framework of long, slender struts, girders, and bracing wire.
2 [in sing.] a stiff, erect, and apparently arrogant or conceited gait:
that old confident strut and swagger has returned.
verb
(struts, strutting, strutted)
1 [no obj., with adverbial] walk with a stiff, erect, and apparently arrogant or conceited gait:
peacocks strut through the grounds
she strutted down the catwalk.
2 [with obj.] brace (something) with a strut or struts:
the holes were close-boarded and strutted.
–PHRASES
strut one's stuff informal
dance or behave in a confident and expressive way:
tonight you'll be strutting your funky stuff on the dance floor.
next season he'll be strutting his stuff in Europe.
–DERIVATIVES strutter noun
struttingly adverb
–ORIGIN Old English strūtian ‘protrude stiffly’, of Germanic origin. Current senses date from the late 16th cent.
Amir adopted Hassan's son and they live peacefully together.
