"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 37

Philip Geer's "Simon's Saga" includes 820 SAT-level words and gives students an entertaining glimpse into college life.

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  1. decipher
    make out the meaning of
    He needed a break from observing and trying to decipher the behavior of his three charming subjects.
  2. emaciated
    very thin, especially from disease or hunger or cold
    A scrawny, almost emaciated, middle-aged man sitting at a table by himself.
  3. repugnance
    intense aversion
    On her face was a look of repugnance.
  4. astronomical
    inconceivably large
    To project psychic energy so far takes an astronomical amount of energy.
  5. sequester
    set apart from others
    We will surround it and sequester it.
  6. reprehensible
    bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure
    Even destroying the body will be reprehensible to us.
  7. quaff
    swallow hurriedly or greedily or in one draught
    Simon quaffed the rest of his coffee and got up.
  8. vanquish
    defeat in a competition, race, or conflict
    “Jets Vanquish Rams” was the headline.
  9. repulsive
    so extremely ugly as to be terrifying
    What a repulsive-looking guy, Simon thought.
  10. quarry
    a person who is the aim of an attack by a hostile influence
    Simon’s got the quarry in his sights.
  11. stupor
    feeling of distress and disbelief when something bad happens
    He was crying, stumbling in a stupor.
  12. paroxysm
    a sudden uncontrollable attack
    Paroxysms of anguish shook his body.
  13. wrench
    twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish
    And he had done it, though it had wrenched his soul to do it.
  14. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
    “You have a right to be distraught after what you’ve just been through.”
  15. extensive
    large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity
    the Group is a little more extensive than you know
  16. quarantine
    place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons
    Simon has destroyed the body It was using. Lexa has now quarantined It.
  17. elude
    escape, either physically or mentally
    We have pursued it for eons through thousands of planes of existence. It has eluded us.
  18. innocuous
    lacking intent or capacity to injure
    Now it will forever be innocuous.
  19. rehabilitate
    restore someone to a good state of health or reputation
    “Slowly,” Xela said, “we will rehabilitate it. Nothing is evil. It is only confused. It needs to be cared for.”
  20. insatiable
    impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify
    “Jaz, you’re insatiable. You and your boyfriend have just saved the world, freed it from some really nasty aliens controlling it—some seriously not nice customers—and you’re already worried about helping that thing?”
Created on Tue Aug 19 09:40:32 EDT 2014 (updated Tue Aug 19 17:48:39 EDT 2014)

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