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Full Tilt. Vocabulary. Chapter 1: “I Go Places Sometimes”. Insignia: a badge of office, rank, membership or nationality; an emblem (pg. 1) Disenfranchised: deprived the rights of citizenship, especially the right to
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Full Tilt Vocabulary
Chapter 1: “I Go Places Sometimes” • Insignia: a badge of office, rank, membership or nationality; an emblem (pg. 1) • Disenfranchised: deprived the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote (pg. 2) • Monotony: tedious sameness or repetitiousness (pg. 2) • Autistic: a person affected with autism: a psychiatric disorder characterized by deficits in communication and social skills and a preoccupation with fantasy, language impairment and abnormal behavior (pg. 5)
Chapter 2: An Invitation to Ride • Trestle: a framework consisting of vertical slanted supports and horizontal crosspieces like under a bridge (pg. 15) • Heady: intoxicating; serving to exhilarate; tending to upset the mind or the balance of the senses (pg. 18) • Menagerie: a collection of live or wild animals on exhibition (pg. 19)
Chapter 3: Ten and Two • Exiled: forced removal from one’s native country (pg. 29) • Decibels: a unit used to express relative difference in powers or signals (pg. 31) • Calliope: a musical instrument fitted with steam whistles, played by a keyboard (pg. 36)
Chapter 4: True Void • Crevasse: a crack or breach as in a glacier (pg. 40)
Chapter 5: Carousel • Equilibrium: mental or emotional balance; poise (pg. 47) • Propriety: rightness or justness (pg. 48) • Agility: the power of moving quickly and easily (pg. 50)
Chapter 6: Road Rage • Obsidian: a volcanic glass similar to granite (pg. 58) • Oblivion: the condition or quality of being completely forgotten (pg. 58) • Geyser: a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountain-like jets of water and steam into the air (pg. 61) • Charisma: a spiritual power or personal quality that gives an individual influence or authority over large numbers of people (pg. 69) • Malevolence: malicious behavior; ill will; hatred (pg. 73)
Chapter 7: Big Blue Mother • Quarry: any object of search, pursuit, or attack (pg. 79) • Monoliths: a large block of stone like that used in architecture or sculptures (pg. 80) • Sultry: expressing or arousing desire (pg. 91)
Chapter 8: Our Lady of Perpetual Reflection • Pallid: pale; faint or deficient in color (pg. 94) • Demoralizing: destructive of morale and self-reliance (pg. 95) • Morosely: gloomily or sullenly ill-humored (pg. 103)
Chapter 9: Zero Tolerance • Kamikaze: during WWII, a Japanese pilot charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft laden with explosives into an enemy target (pg. 110) • Leer: a sly or knowing look (pg. 110)
Chapter 10: Depraved Heart • Depraved: corrupt; wicked; perverted (pg. 125) • Façade: an illusion of something (pg. 126)
Chapter 11: The Wheel of Ra • Centrifugal: moving or directed outward from the center (pg. 130) • Opulence: wealth, riches, or affluence (pg. 135) • Interment: the act or ceremony of burial (pg. 140) • Claustrophobic: describes one who is afraid of closed-in spaces (pg. 145)
Chapter 12: No Guts, No Glory • Sarcophagus: a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument (pg. 151) • Gnashing: a grinding or striking (pg. 157)
Chapter 13: The Works • Vertigo: a dizzying sensation of tilting within stable surroundings (pg. 159) • Sinewy: having strong tendons (pg. 159) • Revulsion: a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike (pg. 160)
Chapter 14: Brain-Jam • Interface: a common boundary or interconnection between systems, equipment, concepts, or human beings. (pg. 169) • Transmuted: to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform. (pg. 170)
Chapter 15: Tilt • Caustic: capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue (pg. 180).
Chapter 16: Reality Falling • Resilient: recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, etc. (pg. 191) • Triage: the process of sorting victims to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors (pg. 196)