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CoE Vocab week 1
City of Ember Vocabulary Week 1 - 10/19/15
Question | Answer |
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ember | a glowing, hot coal, that remains after a fire |
utopia | an ideal society or an imagined place where everything is perfect |
dystopia | an imagined place where everything is bad and unpleasant |
pipeworks | a large network of pipes expanding underneath a city |
labyrinth | an intricate, maze-like combination of paths and passages in which it is easy to get lost and hard to find your way out. |
generator | something that produces, or generates, electricity |
symbolism | the use of an object as a symbol to represent ideas |
inhabited | lived in; occupied |
conflict | the main problem in the story; can be between people |
mayor | the chief official, usually elected, of a town, city, or village |