"The Hunger Games" Vocabulary from Chapter 16

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. misgiving
    doubt about someone's honesty
    Nor do I have any misgivings about her, as I take no particular precautions.
  2. precaution
    a measure taken in advance to ward off impending danger
    Nor do I have any misgivings about her, as I take no particular precautions.
  3. ordeal
    a severe or trying experience
    In this way, she's exactly the opposite of Prim for whom adventures are an ordeal.
  4. ration
    a fixed portion that is allotted
    And I come to know Rue, the oldest of six kids, fiercely protective of her siblings, who gives her rations to the younger ones, who forages in the meadows in a district where the Peacekeepers are far less obliging than ours.
  5. forage
    collect or look around for, as food
    And I come to know Rue, the oldest of six kids, fiercely protective of her siblings, who gives her rations to the younger ones, who forages in the meadows in a district where the Peacekeepers are far less obliging than ours.
  6. rendezvous
    meet at an appointed place
    I even insist she take my sleeping bag, in case it's not possible to rendezvous by nightfall.
  7. replenish
    fill something that had previously been emptied
    I stop to replenish my water and add a layer of mud to my backpack.
  8. revert
    go back to a previous state
    It seems bent on reverting to orange no matter how many times I cover it.
  9. proximity
    the property of being close together
    My proximity to the Careers' camp sharpens my senses, and the closer I get to them, the more guarded I am, pausing frequently to listen for unnatural sounds, an arrow already fitted into the string of my bow.
  10. vicinity
    a surrounding or nearby region
    Clusters of tracker jacker nests in the vicinity of the tree I was trapped in.
  11. copse
    a dense growth of trees, shrubs, or bushes
    I make it to the copse Rue has told me about and again have to admire her cleverness.
  12. ashen
    pale from illness or emotion
    The boy from District 1, Cato and the girl from District 2, and a scrawny, ashen-skinned boy who must be from District 3.
  13. perplexing
    lacking clarity of meaning
    The whole setup is completely perplexing.
  14. mull
    reflect deeply on a subject
    While I am mulling over my options, I hear Cato shout out.
  15. accomplice
    a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan
    That I was here, that I have an accomplice, that I can use the bow and arrow with accuracy.
  16. momentum
    an impelling force or strength
    But she overshot slightly, and her momentum throws her forward.
  17. wily
    marked by skill in deception
    How wily is she to have discovered this path into the food and to be able to replicate it so neatly?
  18. replicate
    reproduce or make an exact copy of
    How wily is she to have discovered this path into the food and to be able to replicate it so neatly?
  19. dexterity
    adroitness in using the hands
    But what sort of trap have they laid that requires such dexterity?
  20. ensure
    make certain of
    Thereby protecting the supplies but ensuring the death of the invader.
  21. demolish
    destroy completely
    Besides, what I'd really need is to throw about thirty rocks in there at once, setting off a big chain reaction, demolishing the whole lot.
  22. revive
    restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state
    Maybe one contains cooking oil, and the burning arrow idea is reviving when I realize I could end up losing all twelve of my arrows and not get a direct hit on an oil bin, since I'd just be guessing.
  23. meticulous
    marked by precise accordance with details
    I place my feet carefully, block out the rest of the world as I take meticulous aim, The first arrow tears through the side of the bag near the top, leaving a split in the burlap.
  24. gape
    be wide open
    The second widens it to a gaping hole.
Created on Mon Apr 16 17:37:52 EDT 2012 (updated Mon Aug 04 12:09:42 EDT 2014)

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