Snowglobe: List 3

by Soyoung Park
In stark comparison to the outside world's frozen wasteland, Snowglobe is the perfect, climate-controlled environment where inhabitants enjoy privilege and celebrity, captured on a 24-hour television program that the suffering world watches and envies. But reality under the dome is filled with lies, dark secrets, and inhumanity.

This list covers vocabulary from "A Piece of Secret"—"The Show of All Shows."

Here are links to our lists for the book: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5
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  1. dragnet
    a system of procedures for apprehending criminals
    Miryu had once been caught in the Snowglobe police’s dragnet, but was ultimately released because of a lack of evidence.
  2. ultimately
    as the end result of a succession or process
    Miryu had once been caught in the Snowglobe police’s dragnet, but was ultimately released because of a lack of evidence.
  3. scion
    a descendent or heir
    Honestly, I never imagined that the scion would be sending his personal assistant to care for me.
  4. egregious
    conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
    Would it be such an egregious breach of conduct if she called her boss simply by his name, given that she’s been caring for him like family since toddlerhood?
  5. inundate
    overwhelm or fill quickly beyond capacity
    As the night wears on, I’m inundated by well-wishers. It feels as though every time I turn around, someone new swoops in, delivering congratulations, and I respond to them with a slight variation on my feelings of shock and delight.
  6. painstakingly
    in a very careful manner
    Director Cha rubs her temples with a pained look on her face, as if I’d just toppled a tower she’d painstakingly erected.
  7. ingratiate
    gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
    Maeryung accepts this easily and lets Bonyung wander off, and as we wait for further direction, the six of us sort ourselves into pairs based on which player we’re rooting for: Wooyo and me for Chun Sahyun, Rhim and Shihwang for Priya, and finally, Maeryung and Sanghui for whoever Bonyung’s son-in-law’s preferred athlete might be, their only goal being further ingratiating themselves with the husband of the Yibonn Corporation’s president-to-be.
  8. sartorial
    of or relating to tailoring or clothing
    Today, he’s dressed in a black velvet blazer and a white turtleneck, a sartorial choice that’s perfectly aligned with his family’s understated elegance.
  9. understated
    exhibiting restraint, especially in regards to taste
    Today, he’s dressed in a black velvet blazer and a white turtleneck, a sartorial choice that’s perfectly aligned with his family’s understated elegance.
  10. intuit
    know or grasp by instinct or feeling alone
    It’s scary how quickly she intuits what I can’t say, as if she’s known me, Jeon Chobahm, for seventeen years.
  11. wan
    lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness
    A wan smile comes over Fran’s face. There’s almost no trace of the energy he had for the cameras just half an hour ago.
  12. charismatic
    possessing an extraordinary ability to attract
    Hunched in his chair, he looks nothing like the Fran I saw on set—tall, charismatic, exuding energy, exuding life.
  13. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
    I think of my dead grandfather, of how cancer multiplied relentlessly inside him, devouring the once robust and gregarious man in both body and mind.
  14. palatial
    relating to or being a large and stately residence
    Then, out of nowhere, he says, “The Yibonn family does not pursue power or seek special privileges.” It’s a line from his grandmother’s New Year’s speech. “Absurd, right? That someone sitting in a gilded study inside a palatial home would give lip service to equity.” He flashes a sour smile.
  15. supine
    lying face upward
    Was the cool indifference he maintained toward Haeri at the party and at the championship just for show? No, it can’t be. These thoughts are pushing my brain into overdrive when, all of a sudden, the rocking chair swings back and I’m almost supine in it.
Created on Mon Aug 31 19:49:07 EDT 2026 (updated Tue Sep 22 12:25:33 EDT 2026)

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