*Pyre: a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material. (Page 94).
Spoilt: to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness. (Page 95).
Sulky: a light, two-wheeled, one-horse carriage for one person. (Page 96).
Defiant: characterized by defiance, boldly resistant or challenging. (Page 96).
Dainty: pleasing to the taste and, often, temptingly served or delicate. (Page 97).
*Perplexity: the state of being perplexed. (Page 98).
Disillusionment: a freeing or a being freed from illusion or conviction; disenchantment. (Page 98).
Belatedly: coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time. (Page 99).
*Bore: to pierce (a solid substance) with some rotary cutting instrument. (Page 106).
Yearn: to have an earnest or strong desire; long. (Page 107).
Ascetics: a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extremeself-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons. (Page 107).
Insatiable: not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased. (Page 110).
*Hasten: to cause to hasten; accelerate. (Page 110).
Anew: over again; again; once more. (Page 110).
Interwoven: the act of interweaving or the state of being interwoven; blend. (Page 110).
*Sucklings: an infant or a young animal that is not yet weaned. (Page 116).
Dampness: moisture; humidity; moist air. (Page 117).
Forbearance: the act of forbearing; a refraining from something. (Page 119).
Transitoriness: not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal. (Page 119).
*Inwardly: in or on, or with reference to, the inside or inner part; internally. (Page 119).
Carp: to find fault or complain querulously or unreasonably; be niggling in criticizing; cavil. (Page 121).
Here are some sentences in the book that use these words:
They all belonged to each other: the lament of those who yearn, the laughter of the wise, the cry of indignation and the groan of the dying. (Page 110).
They were all interwoven and interlocked, entwined in a thousand ways. (Page 110).
He had considered himself rich and happy when the boy had come to him, but as time passed and the boy remained unfriendly and sulky, when he proved arrogant and defiant, when he would do no work. (Page 96).
He preached benevolence, forbearance, sympathy, patience----but not love. (Page 119).
How indeed, could he not know love, he who has recognized all humanity's vanity and transitoriness, yet loves humanity so much that he has devoted a long life solely to help and teach people?
Inwardly, however, he thought: Siddhartha is a strange man and he expresses strange thoughts. (Pages 119-120).
Here are some sentences in the book that use these words:
They all belonged to each other: the lament of those who yearn, the laughter of the wise, the cry of indignation and the groan of the dying. (Page 110).
They were all interwoven and interlocked, entwined in a thousand ways. (Page 110).
He had considered himself rich and happy when the boy had come to him, but as time passed and the boy remained unfriendly and sulky, when he proved arrogant and defiant, when he would do no work. (Page 96).
He preached benevolence, forbearance, sympathy, patience----but not love. (Page 119).
How indeed, could he not know love, he who has recognized all humanity's vanity and transitoriness, yet loves humanity so much that he has devoted a long life solely to help and teach people?
Inwardly, however, he thought: Siddhartha is a strange man and he expresses strange thoughts. (Pages 119-120).
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