Chapter 4-6 Flashcards
Blatant
B-“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.”
M-The answer was blatant, once he teacher explained to the students how to solve it with an app.
D-brazenly obvious; flagrant
M-visible
Mirage
B-“Piggy discounted all this learnedly as a “mirage”; and since no boy could reach even the reef over the stretch of water where the snapping sharks waited, they grew accustomed to these mysteries and ignored them, just as they ignored the miraculous, throbbing stars.”
M- In the Sahara desert many go without water until death and witness mirages due to the lack of water in the overwhelming heat and huge amounts of sand.
D-an optical phenomenon, especially in the desert or at sea, by which the image of some object appears displaced above, below, or to one side of its true position as a result of spatial variations of the index of refraction of air.
something illusory, without substance or reality.
M- an imaginary object seen
Taboo
B-“Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.”
M- Once the old lady had performed the taboo of killing her own grandchildren, for money, the law was after her day and night while putting an unbelievable amount of wanted flyers in the newspaper, electrical poles, and television advertisements.
D-proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable
M- something not acceptable by others
Sinewy
B-“Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them.”
M-The army performed sinewy acts toward the new immigrants that had entered the sanctuary of monks.
D-vigorous or forceful, as language, style, etc.
M- big or and friable, skinny
Malevolently
B-“He looked malevolently at Jack.”
M- Malevolently, President Wabbajack gazed intently into the faces of his cabinet, which weren’t chosen wisely since most of them were all war crazed generals.
D-wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious
M- meanly or un approvingly
Ludicrous
B-“But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.”
M- The new student, Ray, was a ludicrous guy since the worst possible things always happened to him out of nowhere, for example getting pooped on by a bird, having accidentally gotten mace in the face, and spilling water all over his entrance exam.
D-causing laughter because of absurdity; provoking or deserving derision; ridiculous; laughable:
M-fat or unhealthy
Ineffectual
B-“Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and joined the others.”
M- Even though John had warned them of the dangers of war, Amy still considered it to be fun just like in the video games, which brought about their own demise.
D-unavailing; futile:
M not effecting
Jeer
B-“He stopped, facing the strip; and remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly.”
M- Tom couldn’t help but speak jeeringly the moment he found out he was going to have a pet snail, that was faster than a cheetah.
D-to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely:
M- widely or crazily
Indigo
B-“The assembly looked with him, considered the vast stretches of water, the high sea beyond, unknown indigo of infinite possibility, heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef.”
M- Although the earths sky was normally light blue with tints of white due to the clouds today it suffered form an indigo coloration because of the stormy weather that surrounded the entire world.
D-any of numerous hairy plants belonging to the genus Indigofera, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of usually red or purple flowers.
a color ranging from a deep violet blue to a dark, grayish blue.
M- a dark blue color
Inarticulate
B-“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.”
M- “ An inarticulate teacher is not bel to perform his worldly duty” said the old man to the gathered children in his home on top of the jungle tree.
D-lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech:
M frustrated or unable
Theorem
B-“Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem.”
M- The theorem that was made during the National Squirrel Acts brought a calamity to the nation of Tree’s acorns and other types of nuts.
D-a rule or law, especially one expressed by an equation or formula.
Logic. a proposition that can be deduced from the premises or assumptions of a system.
an idea, belief, method, or statement generally accepted as true or worthwhile without proof.
M a scrip or play
Appalled
B-“Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them.”
M- Britnney was appled when she put her friend
D-to fill or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear; dismay:
M- to be shocked in some way
Leviathan
B-“Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar.”
M- The great leviathan leapt out of the ocean floor with its massive hind legs in order to interfere with world war 3, which involved the following countries: The United Sates, Russia, China, Britain, Vietnam, and North Korea.
D-anything of immense size and power, as a huge, oceangoing ship.
M- a huge creature that dwells in darkness and mystery
Mutinously
B- “Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering”
M- The little boys, that lived in the sewers, mutinously had meetings with each other in the abandoned quarry on how they will conquer all the adults in their time period so that when they fallow the same fate of adolescence they will be able to create new rules that correspond to their yearnings of riches and battle.
D- disposed to, engaged in, or involving revolt against authority.
M- obediently or immediately
