Word: Fleet
Page number: 67
Sentence: “The player’s deaths have always been sickening...to put in command of our fleet?”
Definition: group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
How the word applies: How they want choose the commander of their aircraft.
Word: Grace
Page number: 70
Sentence: Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so.
Definition: a sense of propriety and consideration for others.
How the word applies: Alai was being considerate enough to not say anything.
Word: Desiccated
Page number: 75
Sentence: What could be torn by the small scavengers…….now it was a desiccated mummy, hollowed-out, teeth in a rigid grin, eyes empty, fingers curled.
Definition: thoroughly dried out
How the word applies: Describing the organs the maggots have been working on
Word: Malicious
Page number: 78
Sentence: Ender remembered burrowing through the eye when it had been alive and malicious and intelligent.
Definition: having the nature of or resulting from malice
How the word applies: Ender remembering something that had been alive.
Word: Wither
Page number: 86
Sentence: Only the crest of the Giant’s face...from a discouraged, withering mountain.
Definition: lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
How the word applies: Describing what happened to the Giant’s face
Word: Haphazardly
Page number: 91
Sentence: But the enemy was coming haphazardly, uncoordinatedly; they had never worked together before..
Definition: in a random manner
How the word applies: How the enemy was approaching them and how he was.
Word: Ostentatious
Page number: 94
Sentence: They ostentatiously took down names.
Definition: intended to attract notice and impress others.
How the word applies: trying to attract others about them taking down the names.
Word: Insubordination
Page number: 111
Sentence: There was no more talk about insubordination and whether Ender could use his desk.
Definition: defiance of authority
How the word applies: how they were challenging Ender’s authority
Word: Contingent
Page number: 121
Sentence: “The direction I fire my gun is the direction of their main contingent
Definition: a temporary military unit
How the word applies: Telling everyone they should fire at the same person he is firing at.
Word: Vigor
Page number: 125
Sentence: Dink trained his toon… with discipline and vigor; he never consulted with Rose, and only rarely did the whole army maneuver together.
Definition: forceful exertion
How the word applies: Training the toon separate from the rest of the army.
Page number: 67
Sentence: “The player’s deaths have always been sickening...to put in command of our fleet?”
Definition: group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
How the word applies: How they want choose the commander of their aircraft.
Word: Grace
Page number: 70
Sentence: Alai saw the tears but had the grace not to say so.
Definition: a sense of propriety and consideration for others.
How the word applies: Alai was being considerate enough to not say anything.
Word: Desiccated
Page number: 75
Sentence: What could be torn by the small scavengers…….now it was a desiccated mummy, hollowed-out, teeth in a rigid grin, eyes empty, fingers curled.
Definition: thoroughly dried out
How the word applies: Describing the organs the maggots have been working on
Word: Malicious
Page number: 78
Sentence: Ender remembered burrowing through the eye when it had been alive and malicious and intelligent.
Definition: having the nature of or resulting from malice
How the word applies: Ender remembering something that had been alive.
Word: Wither
Page number: 86
Sentence: Only the crest of the Giant’s face...from a discouraged, withering mountain.
Definition: lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
How the word applies: Describing what happened to the Giant’s face
Word: Haphazardly
Page number: 91
Sentence: But the enemy was coming haphazardly, uncoordinatedly; they had never worked together before..
Definition: in a random manner
How the word applies: How the enemy was approaching them and how he was.
Word: Ostentatious
Page number: 94
Sentence: They ostentatiously took down names.
Definition: intended to attract notice and impress others.
How the word applies: trying to attract others about them taking down the names.
Word: Insubordination
Page number: 111
Sentence: There was no more talk about insubordination and whether Ender could use his desk.
Definition: defiance of authority
How the word applies: how they were challenging Ender’s authority
Word: Contingent
Page number: 121
Sentence: “The direction I fire my gun is the direction of their main contingent
Definition: a temporary military unit
How the word applies: Telling everyone they should fire at the same person he is firing at.
Word: Vigor
Page number: 125
Sentence: Dink trained his toon… with discipline and vigor; he never consulted with Rose, and only rarely did the whole army maneuver together.
Definition: forceful exertion
How the word applies: Training the toon separate from the rest of the army.