The Hunger Games: Part 1 The Tributes

adrian W. (United States of America)
These are vocabulary words for chapters 1-9 that I use with my students.
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  1. reap
    get or derive
  2. sustenance
    the act of providing a means of subsistence or survival
  3. synonymous
    meaning the same or nearly the same
  4. tenuous
    lacking substance or significance
  5. insurmountable
    not capable of being overcome
  6. decrepit
    worn and broken down by hard use
  7. cornucopia
    a horn filled with fruit and grain symbolizing prosperity
  8. inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
  9. swathe
    wrap in or as if in strips of cloth
  10. adversary
    someone who offers opposition
  11. divulge
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
  12. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
  13. irredeemable
    not capable of or subject to reform or remedy
  14. mediocre
    moderate to inferior in quality
  15. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  16. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  17. empirically
    in an empirical manner
Created on Tue Aug 30 03:31:01 EDT 2011

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