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CoE Vocab week 1
City of Ember Vocabulary Week 1 - 10/19/15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ember | a glowing, hot coal, that remains after a fire |
| utopia | an ideal society or an imagined place where everything is perfect |
| dystopia | an imagined place where everything is bad and unpleasant |
| pipeworks | a large network of pipes expanding underneath a city |
| labyrinth | an intricate, maze-like combination of paths and passages in which it is easy to get lost and hard to find your way out. |
| generator | something that produces, or generates, electricity |
| symbolism | the use of an object as a symbol to represent ideas |
| inhabited | lived in; occupied |
| conflict | the main problem in the story; can be between people |
| mayor | the chief official, usually elected, of a town, city, or village |