Chapter 1

Question 1

specious

Answer 1

deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit
pg 7 - Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed.

Question 2

effulgence

Answer 2

a brilliant radiance
pg 9 - With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.

Question 3

interposed

Answer 3

place or insert between one thing and another
pg 11 - 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.

Question 4

irrelevance

Answer 4

the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
pg 11 - 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.

Question 5

furtive

Answer 5

secret, stealthy
pg 18 - There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy

Question 6

pallidly

Answer 6

without liveliness, dull
pg 18 - The choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon.

Question 7

ascent

Answer 7

a movement upward
pg 23 - The difficulty was not the steep ascent round the shoulders of rock, but the occasional plunges through the undergrowth to get to the next path.

Question 8

immured

Answer 8

enclosed within; imprisoned

pg 23 - Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.

Question 9

induced

Answer 9

persuaded; influenced

pg 34 - At last Ralph induced him to hold the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child’s voice.