Glossary to the Dystopian Story Collection (1-7)

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  • Beribboned decorated with ribbons
  • Vexation the state of being annoyed or frustrated
  • Puckered wrinkled or contracted
  • Reluctantly unwillingly or hesitantly
  • Classification number a unique identifier used for categorization
  • Insignia-less without badges or marks of rank
  • Whirred made a low continuous regular sound
  • Speculating forming a theory without strong evidence
  • Interred placed in a grave or tomb for burial
  • Vigilance alert attention, watchfulness
  • Wince to shrink or flinch involuntarily, especially in pain
  • Consternation confused amazement or fear
  • Cower to crouch down in fear
  • Synchronize to match the timing of
  • Neutralize to counteract or cancel the effect of
  • Grackle a blackbird with a harsh, unpleasant call
  • Handicap a disadvantage imposed to make someone equal to others
  • Ball peen hammer a hammer with one flat side and one rounded side
  • Birdshot tiny lead pellets made for shotgun shells
  • Apprehensive anxious or fearful about the future
  • Viability the ability to survive or live successfully
  • Clamor a loud and confused noise
  • Decorous proper and polite
  • Lithe thin, supple, and graceful
  • Restive unable to remain still or silent due to dissatisfaction
  • Drooz a fictional drug in the story
  • Arcana secrets or mysteries
  • Magnanimous very generous or forgiving
  • Imperious assuming power arrogantly or domineeringly
  • Feeble-minded having limited intellectual ability
  • Festered (of a wound) infected and inflamed
  • Vapid offering nothing stimulating or challenging
  • Poignancy the quality of evoking sadness or regret
  • Redirected changed the course or direction of something
  • Compliant willing to obey or follow rules
  • Invoke to call upon or put into effect
  • Terminate to bring to an end
  • Cellular relating to living cells
  • Computational relating to mathematical calculation
  • Impending about to happen
  • Boon a benefit or advantage
  • Chiffon a light, sheer fabric
  • Evaporated disappeared quickly
  • Treasonous betraying one's country
  • Contra indicators signs making a course of action inadvisable
  • Pre-toxemia a condition in pregnancy with high blood pressure
  • Anemia lack of healthy red blood cells
  • Bifocals glasses with lenses of two focal lengths
  • Constables police officers
  • Stun-gun a weapon using an electric shock
  • Annulled declared legally invalid
  • Human Services a government department for social services
  • Central a centralized computer system controlling society
  • Citizenship rating a numerical system classifying citizens
  • CDP test a predictive test for unborn children
  • Flag option a choice to terminate a flagged pregnancy
  • Transport a futuristic vehicle
  • Community viability the potential to contribute to society
  • Manual labor physical work done by people
  • Anarchistic relating to anarchy or absolute freedom
  • Antediluvian extremely old-fashioned
  • Bertillon an identification system based on measurements
  • Billet-doux a love letter
  • Chiton an ancient Greek tunic
  • Coventry a place of exile or punishment
  • Debacle a sudden failure or fiasco
  • Dimples small natural indentations in the cheeks
  • Docked deducted from wages or salary
  • Elfish resembling an elf; mischievous
  • Expedient convenient but possibly improper
  • Foofaraw unnecessary fuss
  • Guile sly or cunning intelligence
  • Heretic a person with controversial opinions
  • Inflection modulation of pitch in the voice
  • Jabberwocky nonsensical talk
  • Jerry-rigged crudely improvised
  • Keel over to fall over suddenly
  • Minee a slang term for a minor employee
  • Niceties fine details or distinctions
  • Ostrich-walking exaggerated steps like an ostrich
  • Petulantly childishly sulky
  • Posse comitatus a group summoned to assist law enforcement
  • Pseudonym a fictitious name
  • Rueful expressing regret, often humorously
  • Skitter to move quickly and lightly
  • Slidewalk a fictional moving walkway
  • Subjugate to bring under control by conquest
  • Thatch straw or similar material for roofs
  • Vagrant a person who wanders without a home
  • Vulgar lacking sophistication
  • Nom de rêve a pen name or assumed identity
  • Venerable worthy of deep respect
  • Superfluous unnecessary or excessive
  • Loam fertile soil with clay and sand
  • Contrition deep regret for wrongdoing
  • Fraternize to associate with others
  • Stoic showing no emotion in hardship
  • Ethereal delicate and otherworldly
  • Conjure to summon or create as if by magic
  • Virility masculine strength or potency
  • Paunch a protruding belly
  • Artiste a pretentious artist
  • Manifested appeared or became visible
  • Despondent severely discouraged
  • Incredulous unwilling to believe
  • Esoteric understood by a select few
  • Reverie a dreamlike state
  • Caricature an exaggerated representation
  • Obliquely indirectly or at an angle
  • Unperturbed not disturbed or concerned
  • Impediment (speech impediment) A defect that prevents fluent speech
  • Spectacles Eyeglasses
  • Transmitter A device that sends out radio or television signals
  • Ballerinas Female ballet dancers
  • Emperor/Empress Male/female rulers of an empire
  • Bellowed Shouted in a deep, loud voice
  • Harness A set of straps and fittings to control or hold something
  • Barons, dukes, earls Titles of nobility
  • Gamboled Skipped or leaped about playfully
  • Calibrated Marked with a scale for measurements
  • Tunic A loose, long shirt or garment
  • Cropped (as in hair) Cut very short
  • Concealed Hidden from view
  • Consistency The degree of thickness or viscosity of a liquid
  • Drowsy Sleepy, lethargic

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