City of Ember Vocabulary Chapters 1-10

To be successful

• anticipation

• flailed

• endeavor

• prosper

made smaller or less

• scurried

• diminished

• prosper

• flailed

to wave or swing wildly

• anticipation

• flailed

• scurried

• diminished

expect something

• anticipation

• flailed

• endeavor

• prosper

to move quickly with short steps

• diminished

• scurried

• prosper

• endeavor

something that takes effort over time

• anticipation

• flailed

• endeavor

• prosper

serious, cause for alarm

• gruff

• grave

• pungent

• chasm

a deep crevice or hole in the Earth

• gruff

• grave

• pungent

• chasm

to move or fall downward

• methodically

• descended

• gruff

• grave

having a strong taste or smell

• gruff

• grave

• pungent

• chasm