Choose 10 interesting adverbs fron novel: The kite runner
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incessant
uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
My driver, a chain-smoking, sweaty little man who introduced himself as Gholam, drove nonchalantly and recklessly, averting collisions by the thinnest of margins, all without so much as a pause in the incessant stream of words spewing from his mouth: “... terrible what is happening in your country, yar.
garrulous
full of trivial conversation
A little past the redbrick buildings of Peshawar University, we entered an area my garrulous driver referred to as “Afghan Town.”
sift
check and sort carefully
“You don’t want to know, Amir jan, what it was like sifting through the rubble of that orphanage.
pragmatic
concerned with practical matters
But I am not surrendering to fate here, I am being pragmatic. I have seen several good doctors here and they have given the same answer. I trust them and believe them. There is such a thing as God’s will.”
affable
diffusing warmth and friendliness
Other than that, he had those same narrow green eyes, that scar on his upper lip, that round face, that affable smile.
weary
physically and mentally fatigued
He came back the next morning, looking tired and weary, like he had not slept all night.
When Hassan ran away the night before, he did so because a weak, toothless, slashed-face woman had revealed that she was the mother whom he had never known. Upon returning the next morning, weary as he was, Hassan accepted his long-gone mother back into his life, and with his wife, nursed her back to health, while doing all the cooking, cleaning, and caring for his master's house. "Weary" is not an adjective that Hassan would normally embody.
sober
completely lacking in playfulness
I told you how we all celebrated in 1996 when the Taliban rolled in and put an end to the daily fighting. I remember coming home that night and finding Hassan in the kitchen, listening to the radio. He had a sober look in his eyes. I asked him what was wrong, and he just shook his head. “God help the Hazaras now, Rahim Khan sahib,” he said.
Similar to how Hassan always seemed to know where the kite would land before it became visible overhead, he is aware that the Taliban's arrival, which others saw as a joyful return to peace, meant sober trouble for him and everyone identified as a Hazara. The author gives this quality to Hassan for two reasons: 1) to foreshadow later events and 2) to emphasize that Hassan might be illiterate, but he is smarter than many people in other ways.