All 4 Uses of
vanquish
in
Freak the Mighty
- — The Unvanquished Truth†
p. 1.0unvanquished = not completely defeatedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvanquished means not and reverses the meaning of vanquished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.†
p. 1.2 *
- That night I pulled the pyramid box from under the bed and got the empty book out of the pyramid and I'm thinking, who are you kidding, Maxwell Kane, you haven't got a brain, and that's the truth, the whole truth, the unvanquished truth is how Freak would say it.†
p. 160.6
- So I wrote the unvanquished truth stuff down and then kept on going, for months and months, until it was spring again, and the world was really and truly green all over.†
p. 160.7
Definition:
to defeat completely