This document provides definitions for 10 words that may be useful to know before reading the novel "Shades of Gray" including: gable, kerosene, luxuriant, adversary, gruel, buckwheat, hoe, feign, hollow, and mattock. The words are related to architecture, fuels, growth, opponents, food, plants, gardening tools, emotions, landforms, and farming equipment.

1. 10 Words You Should Know
Before Reading Shades of Gray
By The Orphans

2. Gable
• Part of a wall that encloses the end of a
pitched roof

3. Kerosene
• A light fuel oil obtained by distilling
petroleum, as in a kerosene lamp

4. Luxuriant
• Rich and profuse in growth, lush
• Luxuriant hair

5. Adversary
• One’s opponent
• adversary

6. Gruel
• Thin liquid food of oatmeal or other meal
boiled in milk or water

7. Buckwheat
• An Asian plant that can be milled into flour

8. Hoe
• A long handled gardening tool with a thin
metal blade, used mainly for weeding and
breaking up soil

9. Feign
• To pretend to be affected by a feeling

10. Hollow
• A small valley

11. Mattock
• An agricultural tool shaped like a pickax, with
an adze and a chisel edge as the ends of the
head