DIVERGENT VOCABULARY 2

Goad (v)

Peter constantly goads Tris by reading the negative reports of the Abnegation and insulting her, but Tris’s friends tell her not to react.

Bereft (adj)

After his girlfriend caught him cheating and slapped him, Jimmy stood at his locker dumbfounded and was bereft of words.

Deprecate (v)

Seniors sometimes deprecate freshmen by making fun of them with chants such as “sit down freshmen” at pep rallies.

Dilapidated (adj)

Tris sees many dilapidated buildings in Chicago that are deteriorating while waiting to be renovated.

Revere (v)

Most of the Dauntless faction revere Eric and follow his orders without question; however, Tris often challenges Eric and does not value him as an honorable leader.

Artifice (n)

The lawyer used staged, depressing images as an artifice to get the jury to sympathize with the guilty defendant.

Terse (adj)

Students often wish that Shakespeare would have adopted a terse writing style and gotten to the point in his plays instead of dragging out each line.

Peruse (v)

Teachers get annoyed when students do not peruse the directions on assignments because often the answer to their questions was overlooked in the directions.

Flippant (adj)

My flippant little brother constantly talks back to my mother and informs her that she can’t tell him what to do.

Dissent (v)

Erudite does not hide the fact that they dissent with the current rules in place allowing Abnegation to run the government because Erudite believes they should be in charge.