Sci Fi Vocab

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NOUNS

Photon

Accelerator

Particle

Warp

Laser

Nanotechnology

Force-field

Universe, Cosmos

Interplanetary

Intergalactic

Galaxy

Molecular

Stellar

Engineering

Robotics

Aliens / Extra-terrestrials

Hyper-speed

Base

Headquarters

Mothership

Hovercraft

Invasion

Armageddon

Solar System

VERBS

To morph

To transplant

To navigate

to maneuver

To implode

To detonate

To disintegrate

To hover

To devour

To infiltrate

To investigate

To interrogate

To annihilate

To duplicate

To clone

ADJECTIVES

Metallic

Corrosive

Incredible

Indestructible

Impenetrable

Hazardous

Treacherous

Deceitful

ADVERBS

Stealthily

Inconspicuously

Ferociously

Cunningly

Instinctively

Accurately

Artificial Intelligence

the study and design of

intelligent agents, like robots or software

alien

Imaginary creature from outer

space.

alternate universe

A world other than our own.

Similar to parallel universe.

android

A human-looking robot

asteroid

Rocky object orbiting the sun

atmosphere

Air or climate in a given place

bionic

Having electronically powered

organs

Black Hole

Object in space with strong

gravitational pull that no matter or energy can escape.

clones

Genetically identical organism

close encounter

event where a person witnesses

an unidentified flying object

cosmos

The whole universe

cryonics

Freezing of a corpse with the

hope of restoring it later.

cryogenics

Study of extremely low

temperatures

cybernetics

Study of communication in

organisms, organic processes, and mechanical or electronic systems…When

accompanied with implants, the concept of bionics is created.

cyborgs

A fictional being that is

part-human, part-robot

cyberpunk

fusion between man and machine

set in an urban society that is usually anarchic

deep space

space beyond the Earth's

gravitational influence or beyond the orbit of the Moon

dystopia

an ideal society that becomes

intolerable

extraterrestrial

Existing or coming from

somewhere outside Earth and its atmosphere

flying saucer

a disk-shaped flying object

believed to be an extraterrestrial spacecraft

force field

a shield (in some cases large

enough to cover an entire planet) to protect something from damage by natural

forces or enemy attack

galaxy

Assembly of stars, gas and dust

gravity

The attraction of bodies toward

the center of the earth.

anti-gravity

the idea of creating a place or

object that is free from the force of gravity.

hostile

Very unfriendly, strongly

opposed to somebody or something

humanoid

describes a being from another

planet that has the appearance or characteristics of a human

hyperspace

A fictional space in which laws

of physics may be circumvented allowing faster-than-light travel or time

travel.

hyperdrive

propulsion systems that allow

starships to enter hyperspace to traverse the vast distances of space at

faster-than-light speeds

interstellar

Occurring among/ between stars

Mortal

Relating to human beings,

Eventually dying

mutation

Change in genetic material

nebula

an interstellar cloud of dust,

hydrogen gas and plasma

nova

a star that suddenly increases

dramatically in brightness and then fades to its original luminosity over a

short period of months or years

super nova

a stellar explosion that

creates an extremely luminous object

positronic brain

A computer CPU with the

capacity to rival a human brain.

relativity

refers to Einstein’s theory on

the gravitational pull on objects

robot

a mechanical device that can be

programmed to carry out instructions and perform complicated tasks usually done

by people

satellite

Device that orbits a planet

sentient

capable of feeling and

perception

speed of light

186,000 miles per second, a

speed impossible to exceed according to Einstein’s theories of relativity

starship

a spaceship designed to travel

between stars or star systems, as yet existing only in

science fiction technology

the study, development, and

application of devices, machines, and techniques for manufacturing and

productive processes

teleportation

to move something using mental

power or without traveling

terraforming

Modifying a planet, moon, or

other body so its atmosphere, temperature, or ecology is similar to those of

Earth in order to make it habitable by humans.

time paradox

an impossible situation created

by traveling back through time, for example, when a man travels back and kills

his father, so that he himself could never exist

time travel

moving backward or forward in

time

time warp

a hypothetical distortion in

the continuum of space-time, allowing time to stand still or people to travel

from one time to another

time/space continuum

the theory that space and time are interconnected. Theory that allows

for time travel.

UFO (unidentified flying object)

a flying object that cannot be

identified and is thought by some to be an alien spacecraft

utopia

an ideal and perfect place or

state where everyone lives in harmony and everything is for the best

A) Abolish, Adventure, Affect,

Alchemy, Alignment, Allegory, Alliance, Alteration, Alternatives, Animation,

Anti-utopia, Appeal, Atmosphere, Atomic, Automation

B) Barren, Behavior, Bizarre,

Books, Breach

C) Cause, Change,

Characterization, Characters, Chemical, Cinema, Civilize, Cliffhanger, Clone,

Comments, Concepts, Conductivity, Creativity, Creatures, Culture, Cyborgs

D) Danger, Death, Deed, Dense,

Development, Discovery, Disease, Distant, Disturbance, Document, Dreamer, Drugs

E) Earth, Eerie, Effects,

Enemy, Energy, Envision, Episode, Events, Evidence, Experiment, Experimental,

Explanation, Exploration, Explosion, Exposure, Extreme

F) Fantastic, Fantasy,

Far-fetched, Fighting, Films, Fire, Fireball, Flames, Force, Force field,

Function, Fundamental, Futuristic

G) Galaxy, Gale, Glimpses,

Gothic, Gravitation

H) Hallucinate, Herbs, Hobby,

Holographic, Horror, Hypnosis, Hypothesis

I) Ideal, Identical, Identification,

Illegal, Illness, Illusion, Imaginary, Imagination, Increase, Inexplicable,

Influences, Inhabitant, Interpret, Investigation

J) Jargon, Judgment, Jumble

K) Keen

L) Law, Lawless, Legal,

Literature, Lunar

M) Magic, Magnetism,

Manuscript, Marvel, Marvelous, Meteors, Microbe, Miraculous, Mistakes,

Monstrous, Moon, Motion, Movies, Murky, Mysterious, Myth

N) Nightmare, Nordic, Novels,

Nuclear

O) Oasis, Observation, Odd,

Option, Oracle, Order, Organize

P) Paralysis, Particle,

Personality, Pestilence, Physical, Planet, Pleasure, Politics, Popular,

Population, Potential, Potion, Prediction, Prehistoric, Preserve, Pressure,

Probe, Problem, Product, Pulp, Purpose

Q) Quantity, Queasy, Quest,

Questions, Quirk

R) Reaction, Realistic,

Reality, Recovery, Revolutionary, Righteous, Robots

S) Safety, Salvation, Scare,

Scenario, Scope, Security, Senses, Sequence, Situation, Sounds, Space, Space

station, Speculative, Speed of light, Spirit, Stage, Stark, Stars, Strange,

Suspense, Synthetic

T) Tale, Technology,

Temperature, Tense, Theoretical, Theory, Time, Time travel, Token, Trap, Travel

U) Undercurrent,

Unexplainable, Unification, Unique, Universe, Unleash, Unmanned, Urge, Utopia

V) Vacuum, Victim, Violence,

Virtual, Voyage

W) Wary, Weird, Whole, Wily,

Winged, Wisdom, World

X) X-ray vision

Y) Yearning

Z) Zeal, Zeitgeist

alien (noun):

a creature from outer space - The aliens were scary, but they looked

amazing.

android (noun):

a robot that looks and acts like a person - I loved that scene when they fought

with the androids.

animated (adjective):

made with drawn images or CGI graphics - Our kids love animated movies like WALL-E and Inside Out.

apocalyptic (adjective):

causing great destruction and death - They think the world will end with an apocalyptic

catastrophe.

art-house (adjective):

experimental and non-commercial - Linda likes art-house films, but Mike

likes big-budget action movies.

artificial intelligence (also "AI") (noun): computer-based intelligence - They

found the android's artificial intelligence circuits.

authoritarian (adjective):

using force and strict rules to control people - Our

new boss is one of those authoritarian types, I'm afraid.

B-movie (noun):

a low-budget movie - Some of those B-movies from the 50s

are great.

corporate (adjective

): relating to large companies - A corporate state uses the media to

control the way we think.

cyberpunk (noun):

a dystopian, high-tech sci-fi subgenre - My brother's writing a cyberpunk novel

about computer games.

cyborg (noun):

a creature that's part machine and part human - Robocop's

a cyborg, isn't he?

dystopian (adjective):

of an oppressive or dangerous future world - It's another one of those dystopian

cyberpunk movies.

elite (noun):

the people with the most power and money - If the elite doesn't stop being so

greedy, there'll be trouble.

extraterrestrial (also "ET") (noun): an alien from another planet - She

says extraterrestrials took her into their spaceship.

global warming (noun):

temperature increases from burning fossil fuels - Global

warming's causing catastrophic climate change.

high-tech (also "hi-tech") (adjective): having highly-advanced

technology - We're using the latest high-tech

security system.

mind-bending (adjective):

having complex ideas about the mind and reality - Those

mind-bending sci-fi stories can be hard to follow.

oppressive (adjective):

using authoritarian power to limit freedom - Our country's becoming more and more

oppressive.

outer space (noun):

anywhere in the universe beyond Earth and its atmosphere - The

monsters came from outer space.

post-apocalyptic (adjective): after a terrible event like a

nuclear war or an asteroid strike - Max lived in a violent

post-apocalyptic world.

propaganda (noun):

false information meant to control public opinion - That's

not news! It's just propaganda.

rebel (also "revolutionary") (noun): someone who opposes a government or

fights for freedom - The rebels escaped to freedom at the

end of the movie.

robot (noun):

an intelligent machine that can move itself - The robots in the Star Wars movies are

so cute.

science fiction (also "sci-fi") (noun): a genre with stories set in the

future or in outer space -Have

you seen any good sci-fi movies lately?

spaceship (also "spacecraft") (noun): a vehicle that can travel in outer

space - After the spaceship's door opened, the

aliens came out.

starship (noun):

a very large spaceship, esp one that can travel to other galaxies - The

starship in the new Star

Trek movie is awesome!

surveillance (noun):

the close watching of people's behaviour - They kept us under electronic

surveillance day and night.

theme (noun):

the main subject of a novel, movie, poem, etc - What

do you think the theme ofBlade Runner is?

time travel (noun):

moving through time to the past or the future - Our physics teacher said time travel might be possible

one day.

totalitarian (adjective):

having total power and not allowing opposition - The Hunger Games is

set in a repressive totalitarian society.

underclass (noun):

a society's poorest and most oppressed people - Rebels from the underclass eventually defeated the greedy

elite.

1.

alien

(adj.) foreign, strange; (noun) a

foregigner, stranger, or being from outer space (noun)

2.

ally

(verb) to unite persons or groups;

(noun) a country, person, or group joined for a common purpose; a plant,

animal, or thing related to another; a helper

3.

avert

(verb) to turn away; to keep from

happening

4.

destiny

(noun) the inevitable order of

events; fate

5.

diplomatic

(adj.) having to do with official

relationships between countries or governments; tactful

6.

fascinate

(verb) to put under a spell; to

bewitch; to charm or captivate

7.

fugitive

(adj.) fleeing from danger,

justice, and so on; fleeting; (noun) a person who flees or has fled; a

fleeting thing

8.

galaxy

(noun) separate system of stars;

group of well-know people

9.

gesture

(noun) movement of part of the body

to express something; something said or done as a formality only; (verb) to

express an idea or emotion with movement

10.

ghastly

(adj.) horrid; ghostlike; very

unpleasant

11.

humane

(adj.)mpossessing the best

qualities of human beings; kind; sympathetic

12.

invade

(verb) to enter as an enemy; to

intrude

13.

luminous

(adj.) giving light; glowing in the

dark; easily understood

14.

mortal

(adj.) certain to die eventually;

causing death; very intense; (noun) a being who will die, especially a human

15.

overture

(noun) an offer; a show of

willingness to deal; an introduction to an opera or other long musical work;

any introductory section

16.

planetary

(adj.) referring to a planet or

planets; global; wandering; moving in an orbit

17.

satellite

(noun) a planet, moon, or

artificial object that orbits a planet; a dependent person, company, or state

18.

stellar

(adj.) of stars; superior; leading

19.

tranquil

(adj.) undistrubed; calm; serene;

quiet

20.

velocity

(noun) rapidity of motion; rate of

speed