The Hunger Games
VOCABULARY Chapter 1-7
Part 1: Using Prior Knowledge and Contextual Cues
Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any clues you
can find in the sentence combined with your prior knowledge, and write what you think the underlined words mean on
the lines provided.
1. My mother got rid of the vermin and he’s a born mouser.
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2. I pull on trousers, a shirt, tuck my long dark braid up into a cap, and grab my forage bag.
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3. My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been
publically executed for inciting a rebellion.
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4. They ran an apothecary shop in the nicer part of District 12.
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5. Greasy Sae, the bony old woman who sells bowls of hot soup from a large kettle, takes the greens off our hands
in exchange for a couple of chunks of paraffin.
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6. Twelve were defeated, the thirteenth obliterated.
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7. Besides, it isn’t in my nature to go down without a fight, even when things seem insurmountable.
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8. The pages were made of old parchment and covered with ink drawings of plants.
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9. I had expected someone flamboyant , someone older trying desperately to look young, someone who viewed
me a s a piece of meat to be prepared for a platter.
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10. That I let the Capitol kill the boy and mutilate her without lifting a finger.
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Part 2: Determining the Meaning. Match the vocabulary words to their dictionary definition.
_____ 1. Vermin
a. Not capable of being overcome
_____ 2. Forage
b. Waxy, white odorless substance
_____ 3. Inciting
c. Dispensing chemist or druggist
_____ 4. Apothecary
d. Hack or tear off a limb
_____ 5. Paraffin
e. Over elaborate, showy, vivid in colour
_____ 6. Obliterated
f. Hunt for provisions
_____ 7. Insurmountable
g. Animals, insects or birds that are harmful to hygiene
_____ 8. Parchment
h. skin or a calf or sheep prepared for writing on
_____ 9. Flamboyant
i. Remove all trace of, to destroy
_____ 10. Mutilate
j. To stir to action