Oryx & Crake Week 1 Vocab

___, ___ and ___ depict products which are ersatz, i.e., artificial, synthetic, imitation or fake.

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___, ___ and ___ depict flotsam, i.e., lost cargo or wreckage from a ship.

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___, ___, ___ and ___ depict things that reek, i.e., stink or smell bad or disgusting.

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Laura was rummaging—____, ____ or ____—through the trash.

• unsystematically searching

• carelessly exploring

• carefully investigating

• randomly digging

The soothsayer—___, ___, ___ or ___—sees love in your future. Do you believe her prophecy?

• fortune teller

• cynic

• oracle

• seer

• prophetess

___, ___, ___ and ___ depict something or someone who is stealthy, i.e., secretive, cautious, sly and furtive.

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The man had all sorts of canned goods like soups, chili, and Spam as well as Mac and Cheese, flour and vitamins in his underground cache, i.e., ____, ____ or ____.

• stockpile

• reserve

• supply

• fund

As he sat by the fire, the man was obviously ruminating about—____, ____ and/or ____—something but what was he ruminating about?

• thinking about

• contemplating

• considering

• ignoring

She was obviously enthralled—___, ___, ___ and/or ___—by the man. You could see it in her eyes, her smile, every facial gesture.

• captivated

• charmed

• bewitched

• fascinated

• bored

It took thousands of men, hundreds of machines and many months to remove the rubble— ___, ___ and ___—from Ground Zero after the Twin Towers were attacked and collapsed.

• debris

• remains

• bodies

• wreckage