Ender's Game Vocab: Chapter 1-6

Capable of being controlled, shaped, influenced "Same with the sister. And there are doubts about him. He's too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else's will."

To cover, bury, subordinate, suppress; to put or sink below the surface of any enveloping medium "Same with the sister. And there are doubts about him. He's too malleable. Too willing to submerge himself in someone else's will."

Lying on the back, face upward; inactive, passive, inert "So Ender walked to Stilson's supine body and kicked him again, viciously, in the ribs."

To rid, clear, or free; to remove by cleansing or purifying; to eliminate, remove impurities "That's where you're mistaken. He's even sweeter than he looks. But don’t worry. We'll purge it that in a hurry."

Bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible "Ender and the TV guy would slink along smoothly in front of the cameraman, taking long, lithe strides."

Of measure zero; being or amounting to zero; without value or significance "In gravity, the boy would have been jammed against Ender's seat back, hurting his chest. In null gravity, however, he flipped over the seat completely, up toward the ceiling."

Partition dividing a spacecraft providing structure; prevents spread; acts as a protective barrier; upright partition "The boy sailed through the air…his arms flailing until he screamed as his body slammed into the bulkhead at the front of the compartment, his left arm twisted under him."

Inferior item or resource that there's a lot of and is in demand "A few. I'm not the only half-iced bugger-fodder. A few of us. The other guys-they're all commanders. All the guys from my launch have their own teams now. Not me."

To free or release from disentanglement; disengage "Every time, though, he extricated himself and went back, perhaps to a different spot, to get a different angle on the game."

To have a wearying or tiresome effect; to become distasteful or unpleasant "Within an hour or so, it began to pall. Ender understood the regularities by then."

A person displaying a great show of suffering in order to gain sympathy "His accent made him exotic and interesting; his broken arm made him a martyr; his sadism made him a natural focus for all those who loved pain in others.

Gratification gained by causing pain or degradation to others; pleasure in being cruel "His accent made him exotic and interesting; his broken arm made him a martyr; his sadism made him a natural focus for all those who loved pain in others."

To become annoyed or irritated "Some of the boys were willing servants, doing whatever he wanted even though he treated them with contempt. But a few chafed under Bernard's rule."

A file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn "He was telling his desk to keep sending a message into the interrupt queue every thirty seconds. The message was to everyone, and it was short and to the point."

A violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar; a general outbreak; riot; uprising or other disorder. "There was a tumult of complaint that it wasn’t fair how Bernard and Alai had shot them all when they weren’t ready."