Enders Game Pt 2 Vocab 1 Desiccated Adj

Ender’s Game Pt 2 Vocab

1. Desiccated Adj. Dehydrated or powdered “Now the Giant’s corpse was a desiccated mummy, hollowed-out, teeth in a rigid grin, eyes empty, fingers curled” (70).

2. Raucous Adj. Rowdy or disorderly “And the other children, their laughter was raucous, offensive” (71).

3. Roiling V. To move or proceed turbulently “Now he plummeted downward toward a roiling river and savage rocks” (73).

4. Polyglot N. A person who speaks, writes or reads a number of languages, someone who is multilingual. “No, he was just a brilliant and talented polyglot” (75)

5. Contemptuous Adj. Showing or expressing disdain or scorn “When she said little boy it sounded friendly, not contemptuous” (82)

6. Tactician N. A person who is adept or experienced in planning tactics, plans, or procedures. “If he couldn’t drill a soldier, he could study Bonzo as a tactician” (84)

7. Galling Adj. Chafing, irritating, vexing, exasperating “Galling, and yet he had no choice” (87)

8. Stolid Adj. Not easily stirred or moved mentally, unemotional, impassive “He kept his soldiers moving, darting from star to star, wallsliding to get behind above the stolid Salamanders” (93)

9. Vengeance N. Violent revenge, an act or opportunity of inflicting trouble “He didn’t plan to get vengeance on Bonzo for hitting him” (96)

10. Coincide V. To occupy the same place in space, time or position; to happen at the same time or place “If Ender isn’t the one, if his peak of military brilliance does not coincide with the arrival of our fleet at the bugger homeworlds, then it doesn’t matter what our training method is or isn’t” (98)