Vocabulary

topography (adj) The study or detailed description of the surface features of a region.

"Depending on numerous factors, such as topography and psychology, the riflemen carried anywhere from 12 to 20 magazines, usually in cloth dandoliers, adding on another 8.4 pounds at minimum, 14 pounds at maximum."

Example/ Dictionary

The undergraduates turned in a excellent topography project for their final.


imperative (noun): something that demands attention or action.
               
                    "knowledge, of course, is always imperfect,but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have a reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause." pg 41
           
                     OS: Itis imperative that we bring back our comrades from mayheim.
                      Own Logic- I didnt know the meanning of the word so i looked it up online and dictionary.


Decapitated (verb): to cut off the head.
                  
                    "After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, eviserated, and strung up by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt." pg 42
             
                    OS: In ancient times the majority of people that were decapitated were mostly criminals.
                    Own Logic: Remebered reading a chapter on the french revolution in high school on how the french decapitaed people.

Infantry (noun):  Soldiers or military units that fight on foot.
                       
                   "You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood." pg42
                 OS: Infantry units were mostly used for the viet war.
                 Own logic: I play call of duty :]

Rectitude(noun) rightious of principle or conduct; moral virtue
    "There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil"
 OS: After the battle the soldiers relized there was no rectitude meaning in their actions.
Own logic: Iused the sentence given before the word and figured out its meaning.

Echelon (noun) a formation of troops, ships, airplanes, rank in which groups of soldiers or individual vechicals or craft are arranged in parallel lines, each to the right or left of the one in front.
"You could let your hair grow, he said and you didn't have to polish your boots or snap off salutes or put up with the usual rear-echelon nonsense"
OS: Every thursday the general would wake up everyone for a echelon drill.
Own logic: I looked it up in the dictionary because I didn't know what it meant.

Rapture (noun) ecstatic joy
"A haunted look, Rat said-partly terror, partly rapture."
OS: When the young soldier saw his family he was in a state of rapture.
Own logic: I figured the meaning of the word through the text

Feign,(verb) to represent fictitiously
"The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference."
OS: The feigned women just wanted to get her own way when it finaly came down to it.
 OL: Star was helpful and let me use the class dictioanry to look for the word.

Salvaged:(verb) To save something.
" He watched the young soldier wading through the water, bending down and then standing and then bending down again,as if something might finally be salvaged from all the waste."
OS:The divers were on a mission to try and salvage the remains of a shipwrech."
OL: I knew what the word meant I would try to salvage parts for my tower.

Profound;(adj) penetrating or entering deeply into subjects of thought or knowledge.
"Down inside I had important things to tell her, big profound things, but i couldn't make any words come out."
OS: The philosopher  had profound understanding of many things.
OL: Thanks to FinalFantasy 7 I know this word.

Hubris:pride or arrogance(noun)
"The conduct of the war at the highest levels was characterized by hubris and marked a culminatingpoint in American Cold War policy and international behavior, while defeat in 1975 prompted serious introspection within the armed forces and, ironically, led to a far-reaching renaissance in American military power."

OS: The greeks would always tell tales of heros that fell from glory do to their hubris character.
OL: Read the book the iliad and it speaks of what hubris is.

Introspection:observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes.(noun)
"The conduct of the war at the highest levels was characterized by hubris and marked a culminatingpoint in American Cold War policy and international behavior, while defeat in 1975 prompted serious introspection within the armed forces and, ironically, led to a far-reaching renaissance in American military power."
OS:The philosopher told his students" that in order to study under me you must first take a deep introspection of yourself and tell me what you see."
 OL:Introspection was defined on the history channel.

Tenuously: insignificant or flimsy (adj)
"The french defeat at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, effectively ended the fighting in Indochina, Leaving Communist forces in nominal control of the north, while frech forces tenuously held the south."

OS: The tenuously defense of europe was what led to their downfall.
OL:Used the dictionary :]