Ender's Game:Ch. 8-11

Mackenzie S. (United States of America)
Ender Wiggin is a brilliant but lonely young strategist in a world where children are trained to defend humankind against alien attacks.

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  1. ostentatious
    intended to attract notice and impress others
  2. forestall
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible
    He mocked himself to forestall the mocking comments of anti-semites—almost everyone he defeated in battle became, at least for a time, a Jew-hater—but he also made sure everyone knew what he was.
  3. insubordination
    defiance of authority
    There was no more talk about insubordination and whether Ender could use his desk.
  4. decisive
    characterized by resoluteness and firmness
  5. improvise
    manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand
  6. divisive
    causing or characterized by disagreement or disunity
  7. agile
    moving quickly and lightly
  8. ineptitude
    unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training
  9. invulnerable
    immune to attack; impregnable
  10. autonomy
    political independence
  11. reclamation
    rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
  12. unconscionable
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  13. stalemate
    a situation in which no progress can be made
  14. adroit
    quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
  15. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
Created on Thu Nov 21 14:18:35 EST 2024 (updated Tue Oct 06 14:30:31 EDT 2026)

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