hunger games

Label given to Katniss and Peeta by the Gamemakers

Star-Crossed Lovers

Sponsor who sends a bowl of soup to Katniss and Peeta in the cave

Haymitch

Home district of Clove

District 2

Story Katniss tells Peeta while caring for him in the cave

How her sister Prim got her pet goat

Item Katniss receives from the Capitol feast to keep Peeta asleep

Sleep syrup

Tribute who attacks Katniss with a knife at the Feast

Clove

Item Katniss retrieves for Peeta from the Feast

Medicine

Revelation Peeta shares in the cave about his father and Katniss's mother

His father wanted to marry Katniss's mother, but she left with a coal miner

Age at which Peeta claims he first fell in love with Katniss

Five years old

Event on the first day of school when Peeta fell in love with Katniss

Katniss sang at the school assembly

Sponsor gift sent in a parachute to encourage Katniss and Peeta's romance

Food

Timing of Thresh's death in the arena

During the rainstorm while Katniss and Peeta were in the cave

Origin of the wolf mutts in the arena

Crossbred creatures created using the features and DNA of deceased tributes

First location Katniss and Peeta are taken after leaving the arena

The hospital

President of Panem

President Snow

Katniss's initial reason for keeping the nightlock berries

To use them against Cato

Peeta's initial intention when gathering nightlock berries

To eat them

Location of the victory banquet after the Hunger Games

The President's Mansion

Katniss's feelings toward Peeta at the end of the novel

Confused and uncertain about her true emotions

Author of The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

Classical myth that inspired Suzanne Collins to write The Hunger Games

Theseus and the Minotaur

meticulous

Precise

hysteria

An uncontrollable outburst of emotion

fiend

The devil; someone wicked or evil

perplexed

Confused

assent

To agree

gore

Murder or extreme violence

entourage

A group of attendants or associates

smoldering

To burn without a flame

noxious

Harmful, hurtful, or unhealthy

foliage

Leaves of a plant

prestigious

Honored; respected

brutish

Cruel; gross

astronomical

Extremely large

inferno

Hell; a place of fiery heat or destruction

ruminate

To think about, meditate, or ponder

disgrace

The loss of respect, honor, or esteem

befuddled

Confused or baffled

vipers

Venomous snakes

cornucopia

A horn-shaped basket that is full and overflowing

devise

To plan

lethargy

Extreme drowsiness or laziness

bravado

A false show of courage or bragging

putrid

Rotten

despondency

Loss of hope

garment

A piece of clothing

replicate

To copy exactly

conspiracy

A secret evil plan between two or more people

foresight

Care or provision for the future

famished

Extremely hungry

serrated

Notched on the edge, like a saw

persevere

To maintain a purpose in