Vocabulary

Decapitate (v) - to cut off the head of; behead

"After slaughter, the hogs were decapitated, split down the length of the belly, pried open, evicerated, and strung by the hind hocks on a high conveyer belt." (page 42)

Many people were decapitated during the french revolution.

based on the content of the sentence and self-explanation of the prefix "decap", one can logically assume that it means to behead.


Infantry (n.) - soldiers or military units that fight on foot with weapons.

"you have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood." (page 42)

Rather than join the infantry and test my luck, i'll keep my desk job.

The term, " help spill the blood" logically suggests that infantry are soldiers in a hands on position with weapons.


Imperative (adj.) - absolutely neccesarry or required, unavoidable.

"Knowladge, of course, is always imperfect, but it seems to me that when a nation goes to war it must have a reasonable confidence of the justice and imperative of its cause." (page 41)

Is the redundance of this assignment imperative? ;)

This sentence is focused on the neccessity of the war. Logically I can infer that imperative holds a high value of importance.