Allegiant: Chapters 34–44

by Veronica Roth
The final book of the Divergent trilogy is told from the perspectives of both Tris and Tobias as they confront devastating truths from the past and face impossible choices about their future.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Chapters 1–11, Chapters 12–22, Chapters 23–33, Chapters 34–44, Chapter 45–Epilogue

Here are links to our lists for the trilogy: Divergent,Insurgent, Allegiant
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  1. surveillance
    close observation of a person or group
    “But after the attack, David and the council decided we needed more extensive surveillance set up there so we can prevent an attack from happening again.”
  2. naive
    lacking information or instruction
    That strikes me as naive, for someone who once lived in my city and saw, at least on the screens, how many secrets we kept from one another.
  3. ambitious
    having a strong desire for success or achievement
    Evelyn tried to control people by controlling weapons, but Jeanine was more ambitious—she knew that when you control information, or manipulate it, you don’t need force to keep people under your thumb.
  4. condition
    develop behavior by instruction and practice
    That is what the Bureau—and the entire government, probably—is doing: conditioning people to be happy under its thumb.
  5. deficiency
    the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    “We believe that the best way to help our world is to fix its genetic deficiencies,” Amar says, like he’s reciting it from memory.
  6. perpetuate
    cause to continue or prevail
    Well your home is perpetuating the belief that genetically damaged people need to be fixed—that they’re damaged, period, which they—we—are not.
  7. plague
    annoy continually or chronically
    If Four wasn’t so plagued with self-doubt, he would be one hell of a leader, I think.
  8. hazy
    indistinct in outline
    There’s bravery and then there’s masochism, and the line got a little hazy with him.
  9. discerning
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
    I never thought of the Erudite as being particularly perceptive about relationships, or emotions, but Cara’s discerning eyes see all kinds of things.
  10. reinstate
    bring back into original existence, function, or position
    “The Allegiant are motivated by the desire to return to our original purpose in the city,” Cara says. “Whether that means sending a group of people outside of it, as instructed by Edith Prior—which we thought was important at the time, though I’ve since learned that her instructions didn’t really matter—or reinstating the factions by force.
  11. relative
    not absolute or complete
    The city, our city, is even closer to total destruction than it was before. We can pretend that we don’t belong there anymore, while we’re living in relative safety in this place, but we do.
  12. sentry
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
    He turns, and his expression is stern, familiar. It looks the way it did the first few weeks I knew him, like a sentry guarding his innermost thoughts.
  13. default
    an option that is selected automatically
    But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other.
  14. emanate
    proceed or issue forth, as from a source
    I can almost feel the paranoia emanating from the walls, like the terminal itself is terrified of unfamiliar eyes.
  15. haggard
    showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering
    Somewhere behind David’s exhausted, haggard expression is something harder, stronger.
  16. incorporate
    include or contain; have as a component
    “‘Resetting’ is our word for widespread memory erasure,” David says. “It is what we do when the experiments that incorporate behavioral modification are in danger of falling apart.
  17. quell
    suppress or crush completely
    There was an uprising, and we had to quell it as cleanly as possible.
  18. stunned
    in a state of mental numbness as resulting from shock
    I sit stunned in my chair, picturing the broken roads and shattered windows and toppled streetlights in the factionless sector of the city, the destruction that is evident nowhere else—not even north of the bridge, where the buildings are empty but seem to have been vacated peacefully.
  19. alternative
    one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
    I should have known, then, that he would gladly trade thousands of GD memories—lives—for control of the experiments. That he would trade them without even thinking of alternatives—without feeling like he needed to bother to save them.
  20. agitated
    troubled emotionally and usually deeply
    It unsettles me to see her so agitated, like the ground I’m standing on is no longer solid.
  21. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
    “It targets explicit memories, like your name, where you grew up, your first teacher’s name, and leaves implicit memories—like how to speak or tie your shoes or ride a bicycle—untouched.”
  22. pliable
    susceptible to being led or directed
    “But if we have a record of people’s scientific discoveries or histories, they can relearn them in the hazy period after their memories are erased. People are very pliable then.”
  23. disoriented
    having lost your bearings
    As I said, people tend to be disoriented for a few days after being reset, which means they’ll be easier to control.
  24. coax
    influence or persuade by gentle and persistent urging
    I don’t need her raised eyebrows, her soft voice, to coax an emotion from me that I would prefer to contain.
  25. crucial
    of the greatest importance
    I think the most crucial thing she did—admittedly without meaning to—was confess.
  26. severity
    the degree of something undesirable as pain or weather
    Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crime at its full severity.
  27. propaganda
    information that is spread to promote some cause
    I could tell Amar what’s really going on, but that would require undoing the dense knot of propaganda and lies the Bureau has tied in his mind.
  28. remorseful
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
    It’s the first time since my near execution that I’ve seen him remorseful instead of defensive or full of excuses.
  29. relief
    the feeling that comes when something unpleasant is removed
    In the most honest parts of me, I am able to admit that it was a relief to hear Caleb volunteer.
  30. ultimate
    furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme
    They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, you should let them do it.
  31. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
    Still, I am able to be momentarily placated, knowing that this is something my parents might have understood, if they were here right now.
  32. capacity
    capability to perform or produce
    Just as I have insisted on his worth, he has always insisted on my strength, insisted that my capacity is greater than I believe.
  33. significance
    the quality of being important
    There isn’t enough time to think about the significance of what we’re going to try to do: stop a revolution, save the experiments, change the Bureau forever.
  34. optimal
    most desirable possible under a restriction
    We’re supposed to make sure that we match ourselves with ‘optimal’ partners, so we produce genetically superior offspring, or something.
  35. adequate
    sufficient for the purpose
    It’s the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only thing that does the tragedy justice instead of patching it up hastily and moving on.
  36. encounter
    come upon, as if by accident
    It’s not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone.
  37. stealth
    the act of moving in a quiet or secretive way to avoid being noticed
    We aren’t just driving straight into the city, we’re taking a stealth route.
  38. sinister
    wicked, evil, or dishonorable
    The distance the Bureau has kept from the rest of the world is an evil separate from the war they intend to wage against our memories—more subtle, but, in its way, just as sinister.
  39. languish
    lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
    They had the capacity to help us, languishing in our factions, but instead they let us fall apart. Let us die. Let us kill one another.
  40. abrupt
    exceedingly sudden and unexpected
    We reach the place where the outside world ends and the experiment begins, as abrupt a shift as if someone had drawn a line in the ground.
Created on Thu Feb 04 16:49:52 EST 2016 (updated Wed Sep 05 15:31:11 EDT 2018)

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