Harrison Bergeron Vocabulary

If something is unceasing, it...

• happens once in a lifetime

• happens every day

• happens twice a year

• happens constantly

When someone shows vigilance, they

• stay alert and on watch

• sit up straight and keep their eyes ahead

• laugh easily and smile often

• turn on all the lights in a room

When someone has a speech impediment, they have something that makes speaking

• clearer and easier

• difficult and harder to understand

• sound like singing

• quieter than usual

If the moon is luminous, we say it is

• just barely showing

• about to be eclipsed

• orange or yellow in color

• glowing brightly

When we say something is a hindrance that means that it

• provides a shortcut

• makes something more difficult

• is older than modern times

• is made of solid gold

When someone cowers, it is because they are

• curious

• helpful

• afraid

• hopeless

When a group has to synchronize their watches, they do this so that

• all the watches show the time exactly one minute apart

• all the watches have the same watch face

• all the watches show the same exact time

• all the watches are set to Daily Savings Time

A dystopian society is one that is set up to be perfect but instead is actually

• better than perfect and everyone is happy

• only average and can't exist without much effort

• very tricky and full of cheating

• awful and full of suffering or injustice

to shrink or flinch involuntarily, especially in pain

• wince

• cower

• neutralize

• synchronize

• consternation

to crouch down in fear

• wince

• cower

• neutralize

• synchronize

• consternation