The Hunger Games Chapters 20-23 Vocabulary

Emanating

• winding or twisting together

• coming from

• freeing or releasing from entanglement

• causing something to rise or fall

Sadistic

• not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position

• not having the necessary skills to do something successfully

• deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others

• beyond what is real or believable; bizarre

Irreverent

• impossible to repair

• not having the necessary skills to do something successfully

• unreasonably high

• showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

intervene

• to come between in order to change a situation

• to give in to influence or pressue

• showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

• the introduction of a new element or quality into something

deluge

• left over; remaining

• causing something to rise or fall

• a great flood

• unreasonably high

exorbitant

• beyond what is real or believable; bizarre

• unreasonably high

• not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position

• not having the necessary skills to do something successfully

ratcheting

• coming from

• deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others

• freeing or releasing from entanglement

• causing something to rise or fall

savor

• to give in to influence or pressure

• unreasonably high

• enjoy

• to come between in order to change a situation

residual

• impossible to repair

• unreasonably high

• beyond what is real or believable; bizarre

• left over; remaining

noncommittal

• not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position

• a contest, dispute, competition, etc., in which neither side can gain an advantage or win

• beyond what is real or believable; bizarre