"Ready Player One" (Ch. 10-39) Flashcards
- Smitten
strongly attracted to someone or something
- Ramifications
the consequences of an action or event
- Stoic
a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or complaining
- Ominous
threatening
- Subvert
undermine or threaten the power and authority of (an established system or institution)
- Fascism
a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by an all-powerful dictator controls the lives of the people who are not allowed to disagree with the government. This society is has a top-down system with rigid class roles
- Quintessential
prototypical; the ideal form of something
- Dilapidated
run down; deteriorated
- Colloquial
informal (often referred to language used in casual conversation)
- Precocious
having developed certain abilities or likings at an earlier age than usual (referring to a child)
- Circumvent
to find a way around
- Tactile
connected to the sense of touch
- Contradict
to oppose; to counter
- Sadistic
getting pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others
- Eclectic
deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources
- Berate
to scold or criticize angrily
- Archaic
very old or out of date
- Despondent
discouraged; disheartened
- Inconsolable
not able to be comforted or alleviated (of a person or their sorrow, grief, and sadness)
- Inexorable
unstoppable; unavoidable
- Augment
to make something greater by adding to it
- Indenturement
a contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time to pay back some sort of debt
- Implicit
implied though not plainly expressed (usually referring to somebody’s biases)
- Ornate
elaborately decorated; fancy
- Revel
to enjoy greatly
