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Ender's Game vocabulary 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| capable of being shaped, as by hammering. Easily controlled or influenced. | malleable |
| to delay, hinder, or prevent by taking precautionary measures. To think of beforehand, anticipate. | forestall |
| the method of therapy in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts. | psychoanalysis |
| to look or stare angrily or sullenly. | glower |
| a formal written request for something needed. A necessity; a requirement. | requisition |
| existing or occurring between planets. | interplanetary |
| to parcel out; distribute or apportion. To assign as a portion; allocate. | allot |
| open to more than one interpretation. Doubtful or uncertain. | ambiguous |
| authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid. Support or encouragement, as from public opinion. | sanction |
| having no legal force; invalid. Of no consequence, effect, or value; insignificant. | null |
| impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent. Not reflecting light, having no luster. | opaque |
| quick and skillful. | deft |
| one who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much for a belief, cause, or principle. | martyr |
| a sequence of stored data or programs awaiting processing. A line of waiting people or vehicles. | queue |
| determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability. | whimsical |