"The Hunger Games" Vocabulary from Chapter 13

In a dystopian future a young girl is forced to fight for her life and the life of her family in Suzanne Collins's hugely successful book series.

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  1. impulse
    an impelling force or strength
    My first impulse is to scramble from the tree, but I'm belted in.
  2. fumble
    feel about uncertainly or blindly
    My hand fumbles to my braid and finds a fireball has seared off at least six inches of it.
  3. verge
    come close to
    The audience in the Capitol will be getting bored, claiming that these Games are verging on dullness.
  4. scorch
    burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color
    But I don't dare leave the jacket, scorched and smoldering as it is, I take the risk of shoving it in my sleeping bag, hoping the lack of air will quell what I haven't extinguished.
  5. quell
    suppress or crush completely
    But I don't dare leave the jacket, scorched and smoldering as it is, I take the risk of shoving it in my sleeping bag, hoping the lack of air will quell what I haven't extinguished.
  6. extinguish
    put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
    But I don't dare leave the jacket, scorched and smoldering as it is, I take the risk of shoving it in my sleeping bag, hoping the lack of air will quell what I haven't extinguished.
  7. meager
    deficient in amount or quality or extent
    I manage to take cover under a stone outcropping just as the vomiting begins, and I lose my meager supper and whatever water has remained in my stomach.
  8. swift
    moving very fast
    The swift-footed animals that were my compass have left me behind.
  9. terrain
    a piece of ground having specific characteristics
    To a whole new terrain filled with new dangers?
  10. inferno
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
    I've just decided to try and loop back around, although it will require miles of travel away from the inferno and then a very circuitous route back, when the first fireball blasts into the rock about two feet from my head.
  11. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
    I've just decided to try and loop back around, although it will require miles of travel away from the inferno and then a very circuitous route back, when the first fireball blasts into the rock about two feet from my head.
  12. abate
    become less in amount or intensity
    How long I scramble along dodging the fireballs I can't say, but the attacks finally begin to abate.
  13. scald
    burn with a hot liquid or steam
    This time it's an acidic substance that scalds my throat and makes its way into my nose as well.
  14. convulse
    move or stir about violently
    I'm forced to stop as my body convulses, trying desperately to rid itself of the poisons I've been sucking in during the attack.
  15. stifle
    smother or suppress
    When I finally regain enough sense, I roll the leg back and forth on the ground, which stifles the worst of it.
  16. welt
    a raised mark on the skin
    My calf is screaming, my hands covered in red welts.
  17. manipulate
    influence or control shrewdly or deviously
    But mostly, they manipulate us into confronting one another face-to-face.
  18. crevice
    a long narrow opening
    It's spring-fed, bubbling up out of a crevice in some rocks, and blissfully cool.
  19. gruesome
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
    I went to the woods and hunted the entire day, haunted by the gruesome leg, memories of my father's death.
  20. sodden
    wet through and through; thoroughly wet
    Gingerly I stretch out my leg into the pool, propping the heel of my boot on a rock so the leather doesn't get too sodden, and sigh, because this does offer some relief.
  21. unscathed
    not injured
    Except for a few black marks, it's relatively unscathed.
  22. stupor
    a state of being half-awake
    If the Careers want me, let them find me, I think before drifting into a stupor.
  23. consolation
    the comfort you feel when soothed in times of disappointment
    All six are there, the five Careers and Peeta, and my only consolation is they're pretty beat-up, too.
  24. traitor
    a person who says one thing and does another
    Just the sight of them makes me so angry I want to scream, at myself, at that traitor Peeta for distracting me from having them.
  25. incompetent
    not qualified or suited for a purpose
    She tries to shoot me and it's immediately evident that she's incompetent with a bow.
  26. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
    All my bravado is gone.
  27. foliage
    the collective amount of leaves of one or more plants
    I stare into the foliage trying to will myself to rest, but the burns forbid it.
Created on Mon Apr 16 15:43:02 EDT 2012 (updated Mon Aug 04 12:09:10 EDT 2014)

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