Chapter 1-3 Flashcards
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Lagoon
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- “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.
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Clamber
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- “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.
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Vainly
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- “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.
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Quiver
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- “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
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Decorous
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- “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.
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Interpose
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- “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.
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Strident
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- “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.
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Scupper
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- To deliberately sink
- The ship hit the iceberg and began to scupper
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Speculate
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- “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.
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Clamor
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- “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.
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Pallor
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- “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.
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Indignation
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- “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.
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Jumble
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- “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.
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Grating
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- “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.
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Warped
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- “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.
