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Ender's Game Vocab #
Review Chapter 1-5
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| malleable | able to manipulate or bend |
| spasm | a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction |
| monitor | an electronic device used to watch or control |
| forestall | to delay |
| vengeance | revenge |
| detect | to discover the presence of |
| soothed | to calm or quiet someone |
| mockery | treated with ridicule |
| peripheral | on the edge of |
| pathetic | worthy of pity |
| extenuating | lessening the seriousness sod something |
| requisitions | property that's needed or ordered |
| deceptions | that which causes on to believe what is not true |
| charade | a pretense, sham, something acted out |
| noncompliance | not following the rules |
| competent | will qualified, able to perform |
| disorientation | loss of direction |
| magnified | made larger |
| despicable | deserving of contempt or scorn |
| fate | a force or power that determines events |
| extricated | to release from a difficulty |
| pall | to become boing or wearisome |
| emulate | to strive to equal |
| hierarchy | an arrangement of persons or things in a series |
| somber | very serious |