The Chrysalids Vocabulary Crossword

To remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
To shrink, bend, or crouch, especially in fear or servility; cower.
A line of police, sentinels, military posts, warships, etc., enclosing or guarding an area.
Pertaining to judgment in courts of justice or to the administration of justice.
A person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
Devastation; ruin.
(a direction) very loud.
The living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, mentalism, or parasitism.
Pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation, etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied.
Not customary or usual; rare.
In an oblique manner or direction.
The narrator, who begins the book from his perspective as a child, and continues the story through his teenage years.
David’s younger sister and the youngest in the Strorm family. She is also has very strong telepathic abilities.
David's cousin. She is also a member of the telepathic group, and David’s close friend. Their relationship evolves into a romantic one towards the end of the novel.
He is a critical thinker and acts as the leader of the telepathic group.
He is the spider-man and Joseph Strorm’s brother who was banished to live in the Fringes outside of the Waknuk society.
A cause of great trouble or suffering.
The people in this place must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants and animals, and therefore practice eugenics.
It is a border between the Badlands and Waknuk. IT’S were Waknuk throws all their “mutants”.
Impaired by diminution.