Enders Game Chapter 14-15

Question 1

impromptu

Answer 1

with little or no preparation or forethought

Question 2

gluttonous

Answer 2

given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink

Question 3

ascetic

Answer 3

someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

Question 4

vertigo

Answer 4

a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall

Question 5

adept

Answer 5

having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

Question 6

wince

Answer 6

draw back, as with fear or pain

Question 7

relativity

Answer 7

the theory that space and time are not absolute concepts

Question 8

inscrutable

Answer 8

difficult or impossible to understand

Question 9

armada

Answer 9

a large fleet

Question 10

sentient

Answer 10

endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness

Question 11

feint

Answer 11

deceive by a mock action

Question 12

catacomb

Answer 12

an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried

Question 13

interstice

Answer 13

small opening between things

Question 14

coddle

Answer 14

treat with excessive indulgence

Question 15

irony

Answer 15

incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs

Question 16

reprisal

Answer 16

a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime

Question 17

prostrate

Answer 17

stretched out and lying at full length along the ground

Question 18

provocateur

Answer 18

a secret agent who incites persons to commit illegal acts

Question 19

intelligentsia

Answer 19

an educated elite

Question 20

demagogue

Answer 20

a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions

Question 21

maraud

Answer 21

raid and rove in search of plunder

Question 22

littoral

Answer 22

the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean

Question 23

concave

Answer 23

curving inward

Question 24

itinerant

Answer 24

traveling from place to place to work

Question 25

errant

Answer 25

straying from the right course or from accepted standards