Chapter 3

Question 1

audible

Answer 1

able to be heard

pg 52 - Now the antagonism was audible.

Question 2

perceptible

Answer 2

capable of being grasped by the senses or mind

pg 57 - Simon turned away from them and went where the just perceptible path led him.

Question 3

incredulous

Answer 3

disbelieving, skeptical

pg 14/15 - They were twins, and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication.

Question 4

blatant

Answer 4

noisy in a coarse, offensive way; obvious or conspicuous, especially in an unfavorable sense
pg 60 - The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire
or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors

Question 5

opaque

Answer 5

impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

pg 77 - They were silent on the mountain-top while the opaque look appeared in Jack’s eyes and passed away.

Question 6

generic

Answer 6

without a trademark; general

pg 61 - The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of “littluns.”

Question 7

tacit

Answer 7

understood or implied without being stated; unspoken
pg 56 - Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they
left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool.

Question 8

belligerence

Answer 8

aggressive or warlike behavior

pg 62 - Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence.

Question 9

inscrutably

Answer 9

impossible to understand or interpret; mysterious

pg 57 - The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit.

Question 10

chastisement

Answer 10

punishment; severe criticism

pg 63 - In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand.