All My Rage: Part I

by Sabaa Tahir
Noor and Sal — two Pakistani American teenagers living in a small town — are falling in love as they struggle with difficult family issues.

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  1. veranda
    a porch along the outside of a building
    After she delivered the news, I found my father on the veranda.
  2. masquerade
    pretend to be someone or something that you are not
    It's like by saying it, he's trying to make me feel like he's a friend, instead of a mess masquerading as my father.
  3. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
    Ama's not taking care of herself and someone needs to tell Dr. Rothman—preferably in a coherent sentence.
  4. materialize
    come into being; become reality
    A bleached-blond head buried in a parka materializes from the shadows of C-hall.
  5. saunter
    walk leisurely and with no apparent aim
    She saunters past the flagpole, through the crowds of students, and toward the Civic.
  6. innate
    inborn or existing naturally
    But in the same way that giraffes are born knowing how to run, I was born with the innate understanding that having a girlfriend while still living with my parents is verboten.
  7. verboten
    forbidden or prohibited
    But in the same way that giraffes are born knowing how to run, I was born with the innate understanding that having a girlfriend while still living with my parents is verboten.
  8. insubstantial
    lacking material form
    Her parka is unzipped enough to show the insubstantial WELCOME TO TATOOINE shirt beneath. She must be freezing.
  9. installment
    a payment of part of a debt
    It’s usually Ama hunched over stacks of bills, asking the electric company, the hospital, the cable company if we can pay in installments.
  10. oppressive
    marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior
    Behind Ernst is Security Officer Derek Higgins, aka Darth Derek, so-called because he's an oppressive mouth-breather who sweeps around Juniper High like it's his personal Star Destroyer.
  11. hedge
    avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing
    A direct response would be a lie, so I hedge.
  12. careen
    move at high speed and in an uncontrolled way
    For a guy who careens from one illegal activity to another, Art is uncannily oblivious.
  13. uncanny
    surpassing the ordinary or normal
    For a guy who careens from one illegal activity to another, Art is uncannily oblivious.
  14. wayward
    difficult to manage or keep in order
    Art adjusts his beanie in the mirror, blond hair poking out like the fingers of a wayward plant.
  15. tumbler
    a glass with a flat bottom but no handle or stem
    Usually while he drinks Pellegrino out of a ceramic tumbler he ordered because a Pixtagram ad told him it would save the dolphins.
  16. lucrative
    producing a sizeable profit
    “One day she was fine, the next she looked like a corpse. I thought she was a goner. She's fine now, though. And she got a painkiller prescription she never uses, so that's lucrative."
  17. tinny
    thin, metallic, and displeasing in sound
    She pulls out her headphones, hidden in her hoodie, and a tinny song spills from them.
  18. astringent
    acidic or bitter in taste or smell
    Then she ducks into the classroom, a blur of beaded bracelets, dark jeans, and the cheap, astringent soap her uncle sells at his liquor shop.
  19. specter
    a mental representation of some haunting experience
    For a second, the Fight hangs between us, specter versions of ourselves six months ago facing each other at a campground in Veil Meadows.
  20. cliche
    an unoriginal or predictable theme, situation, or person
    He's also my former best friend. My first love. My first heartbreak. So cliché and so, so stupid.
  21. obscure
    not clearly understood or expressed
    No matter how obscure the theorem, Chachu can explain it.
  22. vagary
    an unexpected and inexplicable change in something
    “You could be doing my job,” Mr. Collins says. “Hell, you don’t even have an accent like some of the guys working at the base. Why are you here selling liquor and groceries?”
    “The vagaries of fate,” Chachu says.
  23. inconsistent
    displaying a lack of regularity
    Some days, I think of throwing Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem in his face. It’s the idea that any logic system in existence is either inconsistent or incomplete.
  24. threshold
    the entrance for passing through a room or building
    I don't remember opening the door. I want to disappear, but I'm frozen at the threshold.
  25. posse
    an informal group of friends
    She waits for Grace and Sophie, her eerily identical posse, to leave the little dirt patch outside the locker room before approaching.
  26. modest
    following standards of propriety in conduct or appearance
    Ama keeps her legs covered in public. The docs here know her. They know she prefers modest dress. They didn't even have the decency to cover her up properly?
  27. intently
    with strained or eager attention
    “I miss—him.” Ama's voice is faint, but she looks past me so intently that I glance over my shoulder.
  28. warily
    in a manner marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
    The emergency room, down the hall from the ICU, is curiously silent. Other than my father, snarling at two cops watching him warily from the door.
  29. ire
    anger; irritability
    My ire rises again because I can taste their disgust.
  30. mangle
    alter so as to make unrecognizable
    I fumble for a prayer, one she taught me because Chachu refused to. I say it aloud, though I'm mangling it because I'm panicking.
Created on Fri Nov 04 12:26:29 EDT 2022 (updated Fri Nov 18 18:07:14 EST 2022)

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