hunger games vocab 20-27

Question 1

wheedle

Answer 1

influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

Question 2

yearling

Answer 2

an animal in its second year

Question 3

haggle

Answer 3

wrangle, as over a price or terms of agreement

Question 4

venison

Answer 4

meat from a deer used as food

Question 5

stalemate

Answer 5

a situation in which no progress can be made

Question 6

forte

Answer 6

an asset of special worth of unity

Question 7

ominous

Answer 7

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic development

Question 8

futile

Answer 8

producing no result or effect

Question 9

flounder

Answer 9

move clumsily or struggle to move, as in mud or water

Question 10

staunch

Answer 10

stop the flow of liquid

Question 11

dappled

Answer 11

having spots or patches of color

Question 12

hypodermic

Answer 12

relating to or located below the epidermis

Question 13

haggard

Answer 13

very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold

Question 14

plaintively

Answer 14

in a manner expressing sorrow

Question 15

respite

Answer 15

a pause from doing something

Question 16

irreverent

Answer 16

showing lack of due respect or veneration

Question 17

deluge

Answer 17

a heavy rain

Question 18

exorbitant

Answer 18

greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

Question 19

riveting

Answer 19

capable of arousing and holding the attention

Question 20

smug

Answer 20

marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction

Question 21

preoccupation

Answer 21

the mental state of being obsessed by something

Question 22

unhinged

Answer 22

affected or as if affected with madness or insanity

Question 23

dissonant

Answer 23

lacking in harmony

Question 24

intersperse

Answer 24

place between or among

Question 25

callous

Answer 25

emotionally hardened

Question 26

tourniquet

Answer 26

a bandage that stops the flow of blood by applying pressure

Question 27

feral

Answer 27

wild and menacing

Question 28

intermediate

Answer 28

not capable of being ascertained

Question 29

wallow

Answer 29

devote oneself entirely to something

Question 30

sheer

Answer 30

so thin as to transmit light

Question 31

garish

Answer 31

tastelessly showy

Question 32

contrived

Answer 32

artificially formal

Question 33

benign

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kind in disposition or manner

Question 34

objectively

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in a manner not influenced by emotion

Question 35

insidious

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working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

Question 36

gauzy

Answer 36

so thin as to transmit light

Question 37

idle

Answer 37

silly or trivial

Question 38

rapport

Answer 38

a relationship of mutual understanding between people

Question 39

segue

Answer 39

proceed without interruption, in music or talk

Question 40

palpable

Answer 40

capable of being perceived