Chapter 1-3

Question 0

Lagoon

Answer 0

• “The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.”
• An area of shallow water.
• My friend decided that we should go visit Martin’s lagoon.

Question 1

Clamber

Answer 1

• “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.”
• climb, move, or get in or out of something in an awkward and laborious way, typically using the hands and feet.
• The boy clambered across the monkey bars at the park.

Question 2

Vainly

Answer 2

• “He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.”
• ineffectual or unsuccessful.
• I vainly looked for the key to my house.

Question 3

Quiver

Answer 3

• “The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.”
• to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
• While the boy was walking down the cold and lonely road, he began to quiver

Question 4

Decorous

Answer 4

• “Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.”
• characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
• But the renovation has brought a great benefit: the decorous look of a residential street.

Question 5

Interpose

Answer 5

• “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.”
• to place between; cause to intervene
• The wall interposed between both the classes.

Question 6

Strident

Answer 6

• “The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.”
• Loud and harsh
• The little boy’s scream was loud and strident.

Question 7

Scupper

Answer 7

• To deliberately sink

- The ship hit the iceberg and began to scupper

Question 8

Speculate

Answer 8

• “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”
• to engage in thought or reflection; meditate
• Mr. Thompson speculated about the possibilities that a person could develop cancer.

Question 9

Clamor

Answer 9

• “Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself.”
• a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people
• The clamor rose as more people came to the crowd at the gates.

Question 10

Pallor

Answer 10

• “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.”
• unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
• Vampires have an unusual pallor to their skin.

Question 11

Indignation

Answer 11

• “Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks.”
• strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
• I looked at the young child with such indignation that he ran away.

Question 12

Jumble

Answer 12

• “There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon.”
• to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order
• “You’ve jumbled up all the cards!” said John.

Question 13

Grating

Answer 13

• “This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.”
• (of a sound or noise) harsh, discordant, or rasping.
• When the boy scraped the plate with the fork, it made a loud grating sound.

Question 14

Warped

Answer 14

• “He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular by the fierce light of publicity, and he bored into the coarse grass with one toe.”
• to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form
• The crowbar wrapped around the steel beam as he hit it.

Question 15

Conch

Answer 15

• “A conch he called it.”
• the spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.
• While I was walking on the beach, I found a conch.

Question 16

Scornfully

Answer 16

• “Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!”
• full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous
• He smiled at me in a scornful way.

Question 17

Officious

Answer 17

• “There was pushing and pulling and officious cries.”
• objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome
• The officious Walmart employee refuses to answer my question.

Question 18

Tumult

Answer 18

• “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.”
• violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar
• The audience, or rather, the tumult, made an extremely loud noise.

Question 19

Irresistible

Answer 19

• “At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.”
• not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood
• The dog had an irresistible impulse to hunt.