The City of Ember Vocabulary Chapters 11-20

These usually leave due to extreme conditions like war, natural disasters, or famine.

• bewilderment

• feeble

• fiery

• refugees

Examples include a fire escape, a window well, or an exit door.

• chasm

• egress

• vaulted

• luxury

If you're running late to school in the morning, you will most likely act this way:

• relentless

• bewilderment

• refugees

• hasten

An impolite teenager who talks back to adults displays this quality:

• impudence

• refugees

• bewilderment

• relentless

The way you may react if you were asked to build a car.

• bewilderment

• luxury

• relentless

• vaulted

Describes a poor attempt to be successful, or an elderly person's strength:

• fiery

• feeble

• relentless

• deciphering

Examples of this include breaking a secret code or reading ancient writing:

• egress

• impudence

• deciphering

• hasten

When your little brother or sister wants something at the store and they keep asking your mom over and over and over again if they can have it, they are:

• hasten

• relentless

• bewilderment

• refugees

A high ceiling in a cave, building, or structure. Museums and churches are examples:

• vaulted

• chasm

• fiery

• luxury

Describes the sun, or the red-hot lava of a volcanic eruption:

• feeble

• chasm

• valuted

• fiery