City of Ember Chapter 1 and 2 Vocabulary

worn along the edge, usually referring to a fabric.

• frayed

• endeavor

• plummeting

• fraid

falling straight down

• ouch

• plummeting

• disreputable

• successor

serious effort over time

• frayed

• scavengers

• journey

• endeavor

echoing

• sound

• reverberating

• plummeting

• labyrinth

not respectable

• scavengers

• frayed

• reverberating

• disreputable

maze

• labyrinth

• corn

• plummeting

• successor

one who follows another in office

• indentured servant

• plummeting

• predecessor

• successor

people who search through discarded items for something of value.

• trash people

• disreputable

• monarch

• scavengers