Hunger Games Vocabulary

Question 1

Collective

Answer 1

Forming a whole; combined

Question 2

Cumulative

Answer 2

Increasing or growing by successive additions

Question 3

Deterrent

Answer 3

To discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding

Question 4

Encroach

Answer 4

To advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits

Question 5

Iridescent

Answer 5

Displaying a play of lustrous colors like a rainbow

Question 6

Seep

Answer 6

To pass, flow, or ooze gradually through a porous substance

Question 7

Supple

Answer 7

Bending readily without breaking or becoming deformed; flexible

Question 8

Terse

Answer 8

Neat or effectively concise; brief and pithy; curt

Question 9

Verve

Answer 9

Enthusiasm or vigor, as in literary or artistic work; spirit

Question 10

Paraffin

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

Segue

Answer 11

To make a transition from one thing to another smoothly and without interruption

Question 12

Peevish

Answer 12

Cross or fretful, as from vexation or discontent

Question 13

Arbitrary

Answer 13

Subject to individual will or judgement without restriction; contingent solely upon one’s discretion

Question 14

Emaciate

Answer 14

To make abnormally thin or lean by a gradual wasting away of flesh

Question 15

Deluge

Answer 15

A great flood of water

Question 16

Banal

Answer 16

Devoid of freshness or originality

Question 17

Tremulous

Answer 17

Characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness

Question 18

Tenuous

Answer 18

Thin or slender in form

Question 19

Gall

Answer 19

Boldness, usually unmannerly

Question 20

Despondent

Answer 20

Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom

Question 21

Levity

Answer 21

Lightness of mind, character, and behavior; lack of appropriate seriousness or earnestness

Question 22

Scrupulous

Answer 22

Having moral or ethical standards; having or showing a strict regard for what one considers right; principled

Question 23

Dissonant

Answer 23

Disagreeing or harsh in sound; discordant

Question 24

Extricate

Answer 24

Free or release from entanglement; disengage

Question 25

Inadvertent

Answer 25

Unintentional