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initiate
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Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
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Initiation days, Choosing Days ….
Chpt 2

initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
We each had to choose a research focus in Erudite initiation, and mine was the aptitude test simulation, so I know a lot about the way it's designed.
Chpt 4
Soft, soothing, low—I wonder, then, if that is something they teach their initiates here.
Chpt 6

initiates = potential new members
I didn't realize until that moment that Dauntless initiation had taught me an important lesson: how to keep going.
Chpt 7 *

initiation = a formal process to become a member of a group (including training, testing, and a ceremony)
It could be Drew or Molly, who failed Dauntless initiation—but they didn't even know Tobias's real name, and besides, Edward probably would have killed them by now, judging by how ready he was to shoot us.
Chpt 8

initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
I didn't get a high enough score on my initiation intelligence test.
Chpt 9
No one fails Abnegation initiation, though, so we have very few of those, except for a bunch who survived the simulation attack and came to us for refuge.
Chpt 9
You've got one of the worst initiations, and there's that whole old-age thing.
Chpt 9

initiations = acts of accepting people's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
Maybe I don't know everything about what happened during initiation.
Chpt 9

initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
Obviously those who can't confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?
Chpt 9
She said the most difficult part of Candor initiation was being given truth serum and answering personal questions in front of everyone in the faction.
Chpt 11
I remembered something I had done in my fear landscape in Dauntless initiation …. in a simulation, a woman demanded that I kill my family, and I let her shoot me instead.
Chpt 12
"Initiation," she says.
Chpt 14
I love Dauntless, but Dauntless guys don't see Dauntless girls as a threat during initiation.
Chpt 14
Just in front of them stands a small group of younger Dauntless, including Uriah; Marlene; Lynn's sister, Shauna; and Lauren, who taught the Dauntless-born initiates as Four taught the faction transfers during initiation.
Chpt 14

initiates = potential new members
Just in front of them stands a small group of younger Dauntless, including Uriah; Marlene; Lynn's sister, Shauna; and Lauren, who taught the Dauntless-born initiates as Four taught the faction transfers during initiation.
Chpt 14

initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
She went through my fear landscape for practice during initiation.
Chpt 14
I didn't notice it before because it was happening right in front of me, but he looks different than he used to, during initiation.
Chpt 17
"Obviously we don't know," he says, "but there are nearly a dozen mysterious deaths recorded among the Dauntless from the past six years, and there is a correlation between those people and irregular aptitude test results or initiation simulation results."
Chpt 18
It's Max, who appointed Eric to Dauntless leadership at Jeanine's demand, who implemented policies of cruelty and brutality in Dauntless initiation.
Chpt 21
I want him to fold me into his arms again, like he did after the last attack, but he doesn't, and I know better than to initiate it.
Chpt 22 *

initiate = begin
I feel like I am an initiate again, storming the stairs of the Hub right after the Choosing Ceremony.
Chpt 24 *

initiate = someone who has formally started procedures to become a member or a group such as training, testing, and a ceremony
He told me, once, that his fear landscape hadn't changed since he first went through it, during his initiation.
Chpt 25

initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
She smells like coconut oil and she feels strong, exactly like she was during initiation into Dauntless, when she hung over the chasm by her fingertips.
Chpt 27
I walk to the dormitory where the Dauntless-born initiates once slept.
Chpt 28

initiates = potential new members
Feet stamping at the end-of-initiation ceremony.
Chpt 29

initiation = the process of accepting someone's membership though a special procedure such as a ceremony and/or period of instruction and/or test
For trying to kill me during initiation.
Chpt 34
We were even before that—I almost killed you during initiation, you almost killed me during the attack simulation; we're square, right?
Chpt 36
There was a bit of a division between initiates.
Chpt 40

initiates = potential new members
Several members of Abnegation, three members of Dauntless, and a former Erudite initiate.†
Chpt 7
Then I recognize him: he is Edward, a fellow initiate who left Dauntless after Peter attacked him with a butter knife.†
Chpt 8
She was in Four's initiate class.†
Chpt 14
She and Tobias have been talking about Dauntless initiate training methods for at least five minutes already.†
Chpt 20
This morning Lauren reported that we missed some of the cameras in the initiate dormitories, where Christina, Zeke, Lauren, Marlene, Hector, and Kee, the girl with the green hair, were sleeping.†
Chpt 27
The room looks just like the one I slept in when I was an initiate: it is long and narrow, with bunk beds on either side and a chalkboard on one wall.†
Chpt 28
Yes, there was a Caleb in my initiate class.†
Chpt 40

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(1) (initiate as in: initiate discussions)
to cause (something) to begin
(2) (initiate as in: initiate into the art of drumming)
introduce to an activity or area of knowledge
(3) (initiate as in: initiate into the fraternity)
to accept someone's membership into an organization -- typically in a ceremony -- sometimes including a period of instruction and/or test
(4) (initiate as in: She is a new initiate.)
someone who has formally started in an organization, or been introduced to or attained some expertise in a particular field
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

initiate in Insurgent, by Veronica Roth (Auto-generated)

initiate
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Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
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