Vocabulary
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Insignia: a badge of office, rank, membership or
nationality; an emblem (pg. 1)
Disenfranchised: deprived the rights of
citizenship, especially the right to
vote (pg. 2)
Monotony: tedious sameness or repetitiousness (pg. 2)
Autistic: a person affected with autism: a psychiatric
disorder characterized by deficits in
communication and social skills and a
preoccupation with fantasy, language
impairment and abnormal behavior (pg. 5)
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Trestle: a framework consisting of vertical
slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces
like under a bridge (pg. 15)
Heady: intoxicating; serving to exhilarate;
tending to upset the mind or the balance of the
senses (pg. 18)
Menagerie: a collection of live or wild animals
on exhibition (pg. 19)
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Exiled: forced removal from one’s native
country (pg. 29)
Decibels: a unit used to express relative
difference in powers or signals (pg. 31)
Calliope: a musical instrument fitted with
steam whistles, played by a keyboard (pg. 36)
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Crevasse: a crack or breach as in a glacier (pg. 40)
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Equilibrium: mental or emotional balance;
poise (pg. 47)
Propriety: rightness or justness (pg. 48)
Agility: the power of moving quickly and
easily (pg. 50)
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Obsidian: a volcanic glass similar to granite (pg. 58)
Oblivion: the condition or quality of being completely
forgotten (pg. 58)
Geyser: a hot spring that intermittently sends up
fountain-like jets of water and steam into the air (pg. 61)
Charisma: a spiritual power or personal quality that
gives an individual influence or authority over large
numbers of people (pg. 69)
Malevolence: malicious behavior; ill will; hatred (pg. 73)
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Quarry: any object of search, pursuit, or attack
(pg. 79)
Monoliths: a large block of stone like that used
in architecture or sculptures (pg. 80)
Sultry: expressing or arousing desire (pg. 91)
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Pallid: pale; faint or deficient in color (pg. 94)
Demoralizing: destructive of morale and selfreliance (pg. 95)
Morosely: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored
(pg. 103)
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Kamikaze: during WWII, a Japanese pilot
charged with the suicidal mission of crashing
an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy
target (pg. 110)
Leer: a sly or knowing look (pg. 110)
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Depraved: corrupt; wicked; perverted (pg. 125)
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Façade: an illusion of something (pg. 126)
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Centrifugal: moving or directed outward from
the center (pg. 130)
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Opulence: wealth, riches, or affluence (pg. 135)
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Interment: the act or ceremony of burial (pg. 140)
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Claustrophobic: describes one who is afraid of
closed-in spaces (pg. 145)
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Sarcophagus: a stone coffin, esp. one bearing
sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as
a monument (pg. 151)
Gnashing: a grinding or striking (pg. 157)
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Vertigo: a dizzying sensation of tilting within
stable surroundings (pg. 159)
Sinewy: having strong tendons (pg. 159)
Revulsion: a strong feeling of repugnance,
distaste, or dislike (pg. 160)
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Interface: a common boundary or
interconnection between systems, equipment,
concepts, or human beings. (pg. 169)
Transmuted: to change from one nature,
substance, form, or condition into another;
transform. (pg. 170)
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Caustic: capable of burning, corroding, or
destroying living tissue (pg. 180).
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Resilient: recovering readily from illness,
depression, adversity, etc. (pg. 191)
Triage: the process of sorting victims to
determine medical priority in order to increase
the number of survivors (pg. 196)