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Vocabulary The Chrysalids

This document provides vocabulary words from various chapters of the book "The Chrysalids". It defines words like blasphemy, mutant, norm, and orthodoxy that are important to understanding the religious society depicted in the story. The vocabulary helps establish that the community has strict definitions of what is considered a properly formed human and sees any deviations as offensive to their religious beliefs.

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Vocabulary The Chrysalids

This document provides vocabulary words from various chapters of the book "The Chrysalids". It defines words like blasphemy, mutant, norm, and orthodoxy that are important to understanding the religious society depicted in the story. The vocabulary helps establish that the community has strict definitions of what is considered a properly formed human and sees any deviations as offensive to their religious beliefs.

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Vocabulary The Chrysalids

Chapter 1 Sunday precepts: rules to guide or direct human behavior Definition of Man: the religious definition of a normally formed human being as Davids society believed it should be Blasphemy: by the terms of Davids society, a malformed human being Offence: a malformed animal or vegetable Germinate: to begin to develop Cleft: a crack, a split (for example: in wood) Rote: a set, mechanical way of doing things (ie. Repeating the times tables in math) Cold-poulticed: a soft, moist mixture of mustard and herbs, spread on a cloth, and applied to a sore or injury.

Chapter 2 Nicholsons Repentances: repentance means a turning away from the path of disobedience to the prescribed method of behavior. This book was obviously a guide to mortality for the people of Waknuk. mutant: an animal or human that has some basic physical or mental alteration; a freak deviation: a marked departure from the accepted pattern; in Davids society, mutants are deviations midden: refuse heap or manure pile leeward: the side away from the wind; a sheltered place wattle: framework of twigs interlaced, used for roofs, walls and fences wraith: a ghost meticulousness: excessive attention to small details

Chapter 3 norm: the standard, or the average; in this case, whatever was considered normal by the teachings of the Waknuk society Implacable: that which cannot be pacified; relentless, without mercy

Chapter 4 helve: the handle of an axe sub judice: a case that is still before the court, awaiting a ruling, is said to be sub judice spinney: a small area of brush or undergrowth ethics: a set of moral principles stating how men must act attested pedigrees: certified documents signed by witnesses to prove genuine the ancestral line of an animal rick: a large stack, as of hay dissemble: pretend demise: discontinuance or ending of operation peroration: concluding part of a speech rectitude: uprightness; goodness, morality pedant: a person who makes a display of his learning trenchant: sharp, mentally alert, keen

Chapter 5 No vocabulary

Chapter 6 Abetting a concealment: helping to hide a deviate Saprophytes: organisms that live off dead matter Badlands: Waknuks name for country that was so affected by Tribulation that it was believed to be unreclaimable, or totally beyond hope of ever supporting life.

Chapter 7 has no vocabulary Chapter 8 Poker-work texts: the practice of burning sayings or proverbs into wood or leather. These were the signs that hung in Davids home. Funking: shrinking back because of fear or uncertainty. Fruition: state of bearing fruit; hence, realization, as in ones hopes or plans Chapter 9 Echelon: an arrangement of men in a series of rows, but patterned like steps Stoking: arranging sheafs of grain into mounds for drying and curing

Chapter 10 has no vocabulary

Chapter 11 Orthodoxy: sound and correct opinion; in this case, correct qualities Amorphous splodge: shapeless splotch Retrouss: turned-up Tribunal: a court of justice; in this case, a court which rules on deviations Propitious: favorable, promising Abeyance: a condition of suspended activity Propreitorial: arising from or showing awareness of ownership Overt: open; not secret

Chapter 12 Sealand: probably what we know as New Zealand Spoor: trail or track Hobble the horses: tie or fasten their legs together loosely so that they can graze, but not run away Imminent: threatening to occur immediately

Chapter 13 Disemboweled: torn open so the bowels come out Sententiously: speaking as if one were a judge settling the question

Chapter 14 Symbiosis: a blending into one; close association Aberrate: to deviate from the normal Miscegenate: a mixture of types Homogeneal: of a similar kind or nature Consensus: agreement in opinion

Chapter 15 Has no vocabulary

Chapter 16 Tableau: sometimes called a living picture; usually, it is a group of people standing transfixed in reaction to some incident Appliqu: an adornment sewn onto a dress Treacle: viscous, sticky substance Chapter 17 Apologia: a defense or justification of the way one conducts his life Superior variant: a type of series; in this case, a type of human species that is better than others

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