Chapter 1-3 Flashcards
lagoon
B-“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.”
M-The strange gloomy lagoon, located in the middle of the Sahara desert, had appeared in a split second once the clock struck noon and the birds cried “doom doom!”
D-an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
M-A swamp like area
Vainly
B-“He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.”
M-Ryan Gosling vainly searched for his car in the background of the film the Notebook once he finished the film because he had left it near the tree directly parallel to the house.
D-1.having or shown an excessively high of ones appearance, abilities, or worth;2. producing no result; useless
M-Eagerly searching fro something hoping to find it
clambering
B-“He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.”
M-Hello Kitty slowly clambering above the rising flames of the burning office building to, selfishly, save rare candies made out of a unique plant found growing on a tree only every millennia on the Falkland Islands of South America form melting.
D-to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.
M-climbing or exploring an area
quiver
B-“The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.”
M-The little boy named Joe only had a cotton eye and quivered daily due to the noise do the constant gunfire that was a daily activity used to scare of the man-eating tigers that have already gotten his mother.
D-to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
M-to tremble or shake
decorous
B-“Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.”
M-The decorous lad that had arrived a fort-night
D-characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
M-very high excitement
interpose
B-“The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.”
M-e car was inter posing in-between the fire Turk and the fire hydrant on the sidewalk when a house was burning up in flames.
D-to place between; cause to intervene
M-impersonate or cause a blockade of some sort
Strident
B-“The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.”
M-The alarmed dog squealed stridently as half of his body was being crushed by a bus in the intersection on Peanut butter ave.
D-making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking:
M-loud or extreme noise, very strange
Speculated
B-“Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated.”
M-The old, wise, monk speculated the horizon as he came upon an idea to stop the cruel laws that the Tau Dynasty had come to enforce in the year c.172b.c.e.
D-to engage in thought or reflection; meditate
M-to spectate something in some form of thought
Clamor
B-“Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself.”
M-After e election of e new president had be successful the crowd clamored in excitement for this new president was neither man or a woman, but an armadillo with tap-dancing shoes and a tuxedo.
D-a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people
M-lots of noise in one area
Pallor
B-“Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.”
M-Jeremy had been born with a natural pallor skin tone, and because of this people thought he was constantly suffering some sort of disease that would bring him closer to death.
D-unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
M-moment or time period
Indignation
B-“Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks.”
M-Osama Bin Laden was filled with indignation as the United States and his own country mocked him because he had farted in his live execution video that starred Mr.Squirrel, a fine gentle creature.
D-strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
M-madness or anger
Jumble
B-“here was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon.”
M-The jumble of Music discs had been created once Phillip had joined the dance party that was taking place in the clouds.
D-to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order:
M-a pile
Grating
B-“This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.”
M-The child was making a grating sound by rubbing his teeth, angrily, at the rabies filled rat that was about enter his personal space.
D-(of a sound or noise) harsh, discordant, or rasping.
M-a harsh sliding noise
Warped
B-“He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular by the fierce light of publicity, and he bored into the coarse grass with one toe.”
M-The metal had been warped, by a machine, to fit the container that surrounded the companies warehouse.
D-to become bent or twisted out of shape, especially out of a straight or flat form:
M-to go from one place to another
Conch
B-“A conch he called it.”
M-Billy Maze had originally owned ten thousand conches, but sadly lost them at age twelve when he was exporting them to his new home in Italy.
D-the spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.
M-a shell of a sort that an be used as a horn
Scornfully
B-“Like kids!” he said scornfully.”
M-The old mad scornfully screamed and screeched at the kids for stepping on his lawn and told them that eyes better leave hai property or way will be shot in the face with a shotgun.
D-full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous:
M-full of discontent or in a scornful way
Officious
B-“There was pushing and pulling and officious cries.”
M-The children had been screaming officiously because the adult had taken the toys away, but one bright child came up with a plan to retrieve them silently.
D-objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome
M-unwilling
Tumult
B-“He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood.”
M-During the death of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. The whole community, of all races and skin colors, had begun to tumult in despair.
D-violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar
M-noisy crowd or group
Irresistible
B-“At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.”
M-Once the boy had begun to eat candy it become an irresistible treat that he would do anything for.
D-not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood
M-not being able to resist,
Nimble
B-“The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swin”
M-Troy was always nimble in his feet in war because if he wasn’t he would die in a few seconds since there were many land mines.
D-quick and light in movement; moving with ease; agile; active; rapid
M-moves quickly or almost weightless
Festoon
B-“Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees.”
M-The curtains festooned across the ball rooms wall from the entrance until the elegantly carved strains made out of the finest gold ingots.
D-a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
M-covered or enveloped
Tendril
B-“Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node.”
M-My auntie harvests tendrils that grow in the nearby forest where she lives, which is in the Falkland Islands.
D-a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
M-tender object, soft
Oppressive
B-“The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.”
M-Hitler was very oppressive against the Jewish religion and albino sea turtles that would visit the shore of one of his camps.
D-burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical
M-to oppress or smash physically or mentally
Inscrutable
B-“Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.”
M-Sir Watson’s fingerprint or any other form of DNA of his was inscrutable
D-incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
M-distinctive, unique
