Enders Game Vocabulary 1

Lithe

"And all the while, during the interview, Ender and the TV guy would slink along smoothly in front of the cameraman, taking long, _______ strides."

Hegemony

"Because as long as people are afraid of the buggers, the I.F. can stay in power, and as long as the I.F. is in power, certain countries can keep their __________."

Bureaucratic

"Because you're such a short-sighted little _____________ bastard that you think you need to cover yourself in case things go wrong."

Vivisect

"But they didn't move, didn't respond to anything, even when our scientists ________ some of them to see if we could learn a few more things about buggers."

Unstintingly

"Completely, _________, she's devoted to you, and you adore her."

Extricate

"Every time, though, he _________ himself and went back, perhaps to a different spot, to get a different angle on the game."

Apex

"He could sit on the see-saw until he rose to the ______; then he fell."

Sadism

"His accent made him exotic and interesting; his broken arm made him a martyr; his ________ made him a natural focus for all those who loved pain in others."

Rescind

"If they could, he was sure they would like to _______ the waivers that had allowed him to be born at all."

Cynical

"It was a _______ way of putting it, but it was true."

Mirth

"Loud, but with real _______, tears coming to his eyes"

Polyglot

"No, just a brilliant and talented ______."

Collation

"Oh, wow, I never knew that frogs looked like this inside, he'd say, and then at home he studied the binding of cells into organisms through the philotic _________ of DNA."

Jibe

"Shen took the idea to heart, and after each ______ from the older boys, he had a group of four Launchies recite the words, loudly, five or six times."

Supine

"So Ender walked to Stilson's ________ body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs."

Magnanimous

"Still, he would care only that Ender had beaten him, and then rubbed his nose in it by being __________."

Scrupulously

"The boy sitting next to Ender was _________ careful not to touch him."

Emulate

"The boys who had been so trained by the computer that even when they played against each other they each tried to ______ the computer."

Contingent

"The direction I fire my gun is the direction of their main ________."

Asphyxiate

"The foamy one will probably _______ me."

Carom

"The frozen Launchy struck helmet first, and the two ________ off each other."

Tumult

"There was a _______ of complaint that it wasn't fair how Bernard and Alai had shot them all when they weren't ready."

Ostentatiously

"They _________ took down names."

Pseudonyms

"They were obvious _________, but that was part of the plan."

Flux

"This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in ______ and the right voice in the right place can move the world."

Grisly

"This was supposed to be a game. Not a choice between his own ________ death and an even worse murder."

Extenuating

"We're willing to consider __________ circumstances," the officer said."

Centrifugal

"When the merry-go-round went fast, he could not hold onto any of the bars, and _________ force hurled him off."

Galling

"_____, and yet he had no choice."

Commiserate

She ______ when she saw what happened.