Ender's Game Chapter One

Question 0

Glint(pg. 47)

Answer 0

Definition: a brief or slight manifestation or occurrence; inkling; trace.
Synonym: None
Antonym: None
Sentence: The glint in the murderer’s eyes at the trial showed how he killed the man in cold blood.

Question 1

Malleable(pg.47)

Answer 1

Definition:adaptable or tractable
Synonyms: impressionable, moldable, flexible, pliable
Antonyms: refractory, intractable.
Sentence: An average humans’s mind is very malleable, and can be easily changed.

Question 2

Rescind(pg.52)

Answer 2

Definition: to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal
Synonym:nullify; retract, withdraw
Antonym:none
Sentence: After he was fired, his contract was rescinded.

Question 3

Droned(pg.53)

Answer 3

Definition: to proceed in a dull, monotonous manner
Synonym: none
Antonym: none
Sentence: the meeting droned on for hours.

Question 4

Forestall(pg.55)

Answer 4

Definition:to prevent, hinder, or thwart by action in advance
Synonyms: preclude, obviate, intercept, obstruct
Antonym: none
Sentence: to forestall an argument, he quickly said I’m sorry.

Question 5

Vengeance(pg.55)

Answer 5

Definition: infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge
Synonym:requital, retaliation
Antonym: Forgiveness
Sentence: the soldiers acted in vengeance after the killing of their friend.

Question 6

Supine(pg.66)

Answer 6

Definition: inactive, passive, or inert, especially from indolence or indifference.
Synonym: none
Antonym: none
Sentence: His supine body was laid as the burial ceremony began.