City of Ember Ch. 15-17 Vocabulary

Abundance

• A large quantity of something

• A person who helps another commit a crime.

• Speaking in a quick and slightly rude manner.

• To refuse to obey a person, decision, law, or situation.

Accomplice

• A large quantity of something

• A person who helps another commit a crime.

• The trait of being rude or impertinent.

• slow and clumsy because of great weight.

Defying

• A person who helps another commit a crime.

• The trait of being rude or impertinent.

• To make very angry or furious.

• To refuse to obey a person, decision, law, or situation.

Curtly

• Speaking in a quick and slightly rude manner.

• To refuse to obey a person, decision, law, or situation.

• To distribute or spread over a wide area.

• To make very angry or furious.

Dispersing

• To make very angry or furious.

• To distribute or spread over a wide area.

• slow and clumsy because of great weight.

• The trait of being rude or impertinent.

Enrage

• To make very angry or furious.

• To distribute or spread over a wide area.

• Search unsystematically or untidily through a mass or receptacle.

• A loud, confused noise.

Impudence

• slow and clumsy because of great weight.

• To refuse to obey a person, decision, law, or situation.

• The trait of being rude or impertinent.

• A loud, confused noise.

Ponderously

• The trait of being rude or impertinent.

• slow and clumsy because of great weight.

• Search unsystematically or untidily through a mass or receptacle.

• To be unrolled or unfolded.

Rummaged

• Search unsystematically or untidily through a mass or receptacle.

• A loud, confused noise.

• The trait of being rude or impertinent.

• slow and clumsy because of great weight.

Tumult

• A loud, confused noise.

• Search unsystematically or untidily through a mass or receptacle.

• To be unrolled or unfolded.

• To distribute or spread over a wide area.