| A | B |
|---|
| cluster: persons or things | grouped closely together |
| hindsight: perception of | an event after it has happened |
| germinate: | to cause to sprout or develop |
| dungaree: | a heavy coarse cotton fabric |
| runnel: | a rivulet |
| valiantly: | acting with bravery or boldness |
| predicament: | a difficult trying situation |
| emphatic: | marked by emphasis |
| baffled: puzzled, bewildered | confused |
| apprehensive: viewing | the future with anxiety |
| conventions: a general | agreement about basic principless |
| awed: emotion in which dread | and veneration make result |
| commandments | rules that must be obeyed |
| rote: routine or repetition | carried out mechanically |
| affliction: the cause of | persist pain or distress |
| blasphemy: showing lack of | reverence for God |
| offense: a cause or occasion | of sin |
| cleft: a space made by | splitting |
| Sunday precepts: a command | to attend church |
| Mary Strorm: | David's older sister |
| Petra Strorm possesses | awesome telepathic powers |
| Mary Strorm: | David's older sister |
| Uncle Axel: acts as the | protector of David |
| Elias Strorm: founder of the | community of Waknuk |
| Rosalind Morton: David's | half-cousin |
| Rosalind flees to the Fringes | with David |
| Anne: only member of the | group to violate its solidarity |
| Katherine: first discovered:reveals | David, Rosalind and Petra |
| Sophie Wender: discovered as a | deviate/ banished to the Fringes |
| Alan Ervin: dies a | violent death |
| Sealand Lady: lives in a | distant place |
| Jerome Skinner: stranger to | Waknuk |
| Inspector: responsible for purity | in Waknuk |
| Sophie Wender is a girl David | meets when he is playing |
| Sophie Wender has a secret | she has twelve toes |
| Waknuk: a society of the future | set in the past |
| Aunt Harriet gives birth to a | deviant and commits suicide |
| post-apocalypse Labrador has | become warmer |
| The inhabitants practice a form | of fundamental Christianity |
| Their fundamentalism is rife with | post-apocalyptic prohibition |
| Waknuk is a frontier | farming community |
| David, Rosalind and Petra | flee to the Fringes |
| deus ex machina | is a plot device |
