Luke Anderson
Vocab Builder
Somber - dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy pg.123
Mantu – Afghan noodles filled with meat and pilau pg. 124
Exorbitantly - (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high pg. 125
Bollywood - the Indian movie industry, based in Bombay pg. 128
Hammam - Turkish bath pg. 129
Nauroz – Afghan New Year pg. 132
Heathen - a person who does not belong to a widely held religion (esp. one who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim) as regarded by those who do pg. 132
Zoroastrian – worship of fire pg. 132
Caliph - the chief Muslim civil and religious ruler, regarded as the successor of Muhammad. The caliph ruled in Baghdad until 1258 and then in Egypt until the Ottoman conquest of 1517; the title was then held by the Ottoman sultans until it was abolished in 1924 by Atatürk pg. 133
Polemic - a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something pg. 133
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