3/05 Vocabulary Flashcards
crestfallen
Book Sentence: “I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
Definition: feeling shame or humiliation.
coverts
Book Sentence: “If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.”
Definition: underbrush providing cover for game.
glowered
Book Sentence: Jack glowered.
Definition: looked with annoyance or anger.
daunting
Book Sentence: “The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.”
Definition: discouraging; dismaying
impervious
Book Sentence: “So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness.”
Definition: incapable of being affected.
prefect
Book Sentence: “He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him.”
Definition: chief officer; monitor in private school.
rebuke
Book Sentence: “Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.”
Definition: reprimand; criticize; reprove.
demure
Book Sentence: “Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.”
Definition: modest; reserved.
fervor
Book Sentence: “If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.”
Definition: emotional intensity; passion.
demented
Book Sentence: “One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”
Definition: mad; insane.
palled
Book Sentence: “At length even this palled.”
Definition: lost its attraction.
corpulent
Book Sentence: “Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
Definition: obese; excessively fat.
derision
Book Sentence: “Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
Definition: contemptuous laughter; ridicule.
sauntered
Book Sentence: “Seeing there was no immediate likelihood of a pause, Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass.”
Definition: walked at a leisurely pace.
abominable
Book Sentence: “It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.”
Definition: detestable; unpleasant.
