Difficult words in the book the hunger games

Teacher Central. Assignment Rationale. Supporting Pedagogy. Why Study Vocabulary. Vocabulary Quotations. How We Learn Vocabulary. Outside Resources. All Pages About Vocabulary. About verbalworkout. Book Menu. The manacles are off, but he's still constantly accompanied by a pair of guards. Typical Usage. Dictionary list — Onelook. All Book Uses Typical Usage. Book 7 uses Library 16 uses in 10 avg bks 1st use Chapter 3.

What has been proposed is that in lieu of eliminating the entire Capitol population, we have a final, symbolic Hunger Games, using the children directly related to those who held the most power. For example: "The road runs directly to Las Vegas. Book 11 uses Library 62 uses in 10 avg bks 1st use Chapter 6. Gale and I directly disobeyed orders yesterday, and Boggs has the injury to prove it. He painfully pushes himself up to a sitting position and directs his words to Gale.

For example: "intentionally directed fire at unarmed civilians" — aimed a gun "directed the question to her" — aimed a question "directed her north" — pointed in a particular direction "directed attention to the 3rd paragraph" — focused attention on a particular object "The sound of her voice directed him to the kitchen. The TV crew consists of a pair of burly Capitol cameramen with heavy mobile cameras encasing their bodies like insect shells, a woman director named Cressida who has a shaved head tattooed with green vines, and her assistant, Messalla, a slim young man with several sets of earrings.

Book 2 uses Library 29 uses in 10 avg bks 1st use Chapter 7. The implications that I could so readily dispose of Peeta, that I'm in love with Gale, that the whole thing has been an act.

Madge shoots him a look, trying to see if it's a genuine compliment or if he's just being ironic. His eyes land on a small, circular pin that adorns her dress. You become eligible for the reaping the day you turn twelve. Each tessera is worth a meager year's supply of grain and oil for one person. On other days, deep in the woods, I've listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our district.

A way to plant hatred between the starving workers of the Seam and those who can generally count on supper and thereby ensure we will never trust one another. The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face. Attendance is mandatory unless you are on death's door. Family members line up around the perimeter , holding tightly to one another's hands. The space gets tighter, more claustrophobic as people arrive.

Latecomers are directed to the adjacent streets, where they can watch the event on screens as it's televised live by the state. We all exchange terse nods then focus our attention on the temporary stage that is set up before the Justice Building. It holds three chairs, a podium , and two large glass balls, one for the boys and one for the girls.

They murmur to each other and then look with concern at the empty seat. He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the en- croaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained. The result was Panem, a shining Capitol ringed by thirteen districts, which brought peace and prosperity to its citizens.

Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated. The Treaty of Treason gave us the new laws to guarantee peace and, as our yearly reminder that the Dark Days must never be repeated, it gave us the Hunger Games. The twenty- four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland.

To make it humiliating as well as torturous, the Capitol requires us to treat the Hunger Games as a festivity, a sporting event pitting every district against the others. The last tribute alive receives a life of ease back home, and their district will be showered with prizes, largely consisting of food.

All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation.

Then he reads the list of past District 12 victors. Get started. Connect Vocabulary. My Account Log in Sign up.