"All Summer" vocabulary
"Ponies"
The Hunger Games List #1
Definition time
Literature Terms
100

Necessary for life or very important.

Vital

100

A pen for farm animals.

Corral

100

To trespass for the purpose of hunting

Poaching

100

Savagely

Fiercely, wild, or cruel

100

A Science fiction story in which a futuristic world is far from perfect.  an imagined world or society in which people lead oppressed and fearful lives.

Dystopia

200

A powerful shock, crash, or impact

Concussion

200

A number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch.

Cluster

200

To discourage, prevent, or inhibit

Deterrent

200

Corral

A pen for farm animals

200

A story genre that contains “fantastic” elements that could not happen in the natural world.  Example:  talking unicorns



Fantasy

300

Necessary for life or very important

Vital

300

To work; cooperate, as on an ELA assignment

Collaborate

300

Absurd;  absent of reason or common sense

Preposterous

300

Flossy

stylish; excessively fancy

300

A comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

Simile

400

Becoming slow or slower; easing up

Slackening

400

A shaped or compressed mass.

Caked

400

A system of rules that explain the correct conduct and procedures to be followed in  formal situations 



Protocol

400

Poaching

To trespass for the purpose of hunting

400

A story passed down for generations that explains why things are the way they are.  They can explain how things came to exist and often contain God, Goddesses and heroes

Myth

500

Serious, gloomy, or grave. 



Solemn

500

Stylish; excessively fancy.

Flossy

500

Uncontrollable excitement or frenzy

Maniacally

500

Haggling  

 to negotiate or argue over the terms of a purchase, agreement, or contract  

500

A story genre that includes things that don’t exist today, but they are things that really could happen in the future.  Example: flying cars

Science Fiction


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