Uglies: Chapters 9 - 12 Vocabulary

Unkempt

Tally watched the last few uglies make their way inside, gawky and nervous, unkempt and uncoordinated.

• a vast multitude

• not neatly combed

• lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

• fraught with uncertainty or doubt

Maniacal

A second later the bungee jacket activated, and Shay bobbed back up in midair, laughing maniacally at the top of her lungs.

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

• disposed to warfare or hard-line policies

• lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

• wildly disordered

Enviously

All the other uglies looked at her enviously, but no one saw much point in making friends. Probably it was better to get the operation over with all at once.

• a recurrent rhythmical series

• a feeling of discontent or desire another's advantages, success, possessions, etc.

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

• held in check with difficulty

Vapid

"But eventually you’ve got to do something besides being a clever little ugly.”

“Like being a vapid, boring pretty?”

• lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

• make a mess of, destroy, or ruin

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

• in disarray; extremely disorderly

Dehydrated

“Food for two weeks—dehydrated. You just drop one of these into the purifier and add water. Any kind of water.”

• curved down like an eagle's beak

• draw back, as with fear or pain

• to remove water from

• not neatly combed

Tendrils

A plume of red soared up in the middle of town, tendrils of fireworks drifting down like the leaves of a giant willow tree.

• look with amazement

• fraught with uncertainty or doubt

• a path or strip

• a leaf or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support

Flippant

Something about the middle pretty made it hard to be flippant. He was wisdom personified, his manner so serious and formal that Tally found herself wishing she had dressed up.

• showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness

• fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless

• held in check with difficulty

• showing a sense of shame

Cartilage

Should she tell this new ugly that sometime this afternoon, her body was going to be opened up, the bones ground down to the right shape, some of them stretched or padded, her nose cartilage and cheekbones stripped out and replaced with programmable plastic, skin sanded off and reseeded like a soccer field in spring?

• a tough but flexible tissue that is the main type of connective tissue in the body

• disarrange or rumple; dishevel

• a slender threadlike appendage of a climbing plant, often growing in a spiral form, that stretches out and twines round any suitable support

• a vast multitude

Botch

He was definitely of middle age, but whoever had done his operation had botched it. He was beautiful, without a doubt, but it was a terrible beauty.

• wear off or die down

• lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness

• showing an inappropriate lack of seriousness

• make a mess of, destroy, or ruin

Saturated

She always felt respect when face-to-face with a middle or late pretty. But in the presence of this cruelly beautiful man, respect was saturated with fear.

• holding as much water or moisture as can be absorbed; thoroughly soaked.

• fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

• known widely and usually unfavorably

• lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness