Hunger Games Vocabulary Flashcards
Collective
Forming a whole; combined
Cumulative
Increasing or growing by successive additions
Deterrent
To discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding
Encroach
To advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits
Iridescent
Displaying a play of lustrous colors like a rainbow
Seep
To pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance
Supple
Bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; flexible
Terse
Neat or effectively concise; brief and pithy; curt
Verve
Enthusiasm or vigor, as in literary or artistic work; spirit
Paraffin
A waterproof substance used to make coatings and seals
A white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance not easily acted upon by reagents, consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series, obtained from crude petroleum: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
Segue
To make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption
Peevish
Cross or fretful, as from vexation or discontent
Arbitrary
Subject to individual will or judgement without restriction; contingent solely upon one’s discretion
Emaciate
To make abnormally thin or lean by a gradual wasting away of flesh
Deluge
A great flood of water
Banal
Devoid of freshness or originality
Tremulous
Characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness
Tenuous
Thin or slender in form
Gall
Boldness, usually unmannerly
Despondent
Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom
Levity
Lightness of mind, character, and behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness
Scrupulous
Having moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled
Dissonant
Disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant
Extricate
Free or release from entanglement; disengage
Inadvertent
Unintentional
