Chapter 6 - Cloze Deletion

Question 1

Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the ___________ figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.

Answer 1

corpulent

Question 2

Before the party had started a great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and ___________, sat there like an idol.

Answer 2

garlanded

Question 3

He started to laugh, then stopped and became ___________ instead.

Answer 3

fluent

Question 4

He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, ___________ the possibilities of irresponsible authority.

Answer 4

assimilating

Question 5

Sitting on the tremendous rock in the ___________ sun, Roger received this news as an illumination

Answer 5

torrid

Question 6

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite ___________ of adult life.

Answer 6

cynicism

Question 7

Any savage ___________ in the forest would utter the double shout and hold up the line till he was free again.

Answer 7

baulked/balked

Question 8

Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this ___________ but partly secure society

Answer 8

demented

Question 9

The wood he fetched was close at hand, a fallen tree on the platform that they did not need for the assembly, yet to the others the ___________ of the platform had protected even what was useless there.

Answer 9

sanctity

Question 10

A shadow fronted him ___________.

Answer 10

tempestuously