Dystopian Vocab
The Lottery
Upswing
Just Do It
For Fun
100

A quality or characteristic that distinguishes something as unique

Individuality 

100

At the beginning of the story, children are...

Piling up stones

100

The name of the new app to rate people

Rateez 

100

The company that creates the chemical advertisements

CraveTech

100

CMS Principal 

Mrs. Paszt

200

Misinterpretation, something that appears one way but is the opposite

Illusion 

200

The author of the story

Shirley Jackson

200

______________ gives all the students good grades on their papers even when the info is incorrect

Mr. Bickerton

200

Alex's friend (also working as part of the underground resistance) 

Sandra

200
Son in Monkey's Paw

Herbert White

300

Excessive procedural formalities to get to an end goal

Red Tape

300

This person gets the paper with the dot 

Tessie Hutchinson 

300

AJ's normal spot in the batting line up was...

4th (clean up spot)

300

The reason Alex wants to work at CraveTech

To work undercover to create an antidote 
300

Narrator of The Outsiders

Ponyboy

400

The business of running a government-important decisions are made by state officials rather than elected representatives 

Bureaucratic 

400

The reason the black box never changes and the lottery is conducted each year

Tradition

400

The panther's team is going to be ________ if they don't get their ratings up

Cut

400

Future parents use these to control their children's behavior

BeMod guns

400

Painting by Van Gogh that is seen in the main hallway at CMS

Starry Night

500

A system of government that is dictatorial and people answer to the state

Totalitarian 

500

This is what happens to the person chosen in the lottery

They are stoned to death
500

This character broke his neck trying to do a backflip

Luis

500

Alex and Tom's relationship at the end of the story

Husband & Wife
500

Mrs. Eskridge's due date

February 9th