2. VOCABULARY all definitions from www.dictionary.com

3. utopia
noun 1. an ideal place or state. 2. any visionary system of political or social perfection.

4. dystopia
noun a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.

5. reaping
verb 1. to cut (wheat, rye, etc.) with a sickle or other implement or a machine, as in harvest. 2. to gather or take (a crop, harvest, etc.). “This is the day of the reaping.” p. 3 “Tonight. After the reaping, everyone is supposed to celebrate.” p.10

6. apothecary
noun 1. a pharmacist 2. a pharmacy or drugstore 3. (especially in England and Ireland) a druggist licensed to prescribe medicine “They (Prim’s mother’s parents) ran an apothecary shop in the nicer part of District 12.” p.8

7. entrails
plural noun 1. the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body 2. the intestines “Sometimes when I clean a kill, I feed Buttercup the entrails.”

8. iridescent
adjective 1. displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow “From this place, we are invisible but have a clear view of the valley, which is teeming with summer life, greens to gather, roots to dig, fish iridescent in the sunlight.” p.9

9. paraffin
noun
a white or colorless, tasteless, odorless, water-insoluble, solid substance consisting of a mixture of hydrocarbons chiefly of the alkane series: used in candles, for forming preservative coatings and seals, for waterproofing paper, etc.
“Greasy Sae, the bony old lady woman who sells bowls of hot soup from a large kettle, takes half the greens off our hands in exchange for a couple chunks of paraffin.”p.11

10. tesserae
plural noun 1. a small square of bone, wood, or the like, used in ancient times as a token, tally, ticket, etc. “You can opt to add your name in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person.”p.13

11. meager
adjective
deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate
having little flesh; lean; thin
“Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person.” p.13

12. racketeers
noun 1. a person engaged in a racket (racket - an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence; a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc) “But there are others too, who have no one they love at stake, or who no longer care, who slip among the crowd, taking bets on the two kids whose names will be drawn......Most refuse dealing with the racketeers but carefully, carefully.” p.17

13. sustenance noun means of sustaining life; nourishment.
“He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war, for what little sustenance remained.” p.18

14. tribute
noun 1. a gift, testimonial, compliment, or the like, given as due or in acknowledgment of gratitude or esteem. “The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes to participate.”p.18

15. repentance
noun 1. deep sorrow, compunction, or contrition for a past sin, wrongdoing, or the like. 2. regret for any past action. “‘It is both a time for repentance and a time for thanks,” intoned the mayor.”p.19

16. Vocabulary Assessment
If you were assigned your vocabulary terms, use these words in your written assessment:
repentance
adversaries
oblivious
inexplicable
insurmountable
If you created your own vocabulary
list, use #s 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 from your clarification sheet in your written assessment.

17. treason
noun 1. the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.