Chapter 7-9 Flashcards
coverts
B-“If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.”
M-The secret force of army men, named SAM, converted themselves with clothing at matched their surrounding to stay incognito.
D-concealed; secret; disguised.
M- geographic entity
Crestfallen
B-“I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
M- The boy from the corner of the street felt crestfallen with himself once he saw his crush exchange a kiss with a stranger and went, very depressed, to the store to engulf himself with greasy food.
D-dejected; dispirited; discouraged.
having a drooping crest or head.
M-confused
Glowered
B-“Jack glowered.”
M- One-hundred wolfs glowered at the men who came into the glacier’s cave in order to hunt the legendary puffy fluffy caterpillar perched on its throne, which it only does every five-hundred years.
D-to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
M- to glare
Daunting
B-“The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.”
M- The kids were filled with daunt when vampire bats surrounded their campsite.
D-to overcome with fear; intimidate: to lessen the courage of; dishearten:
M-cruel or real
Impervious
B-“So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness.”
M- The impervious passage way has never been crossed with success, all those who tried died.
D-not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable:
M-impatient
Prefect
B-“He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him.”
M- The prefect for the day, Mr.Carter, wasn’t able to accomplish his tasks due to the exposure of sleeping gas that was thrown into the window of his car on his way to work.
D-a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
M- a leader or person of authority
Rebuke
B-“Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.”
M- Everyone that he knew, including his own family, rebuked him for more than ten years and only ever cared for him enough to shove him out of e way when he was disturbing them.
D-to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
M-contradict or correct
Demure
B-“Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.”
M- There is girl in the seventh grade who has a demure personality, actually now there are two of them, and the surprising thing is that they don’t even socialize with one another.
D-characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
affectedly or coyly decorous, sober, or sedate.
M-perfect or congruent
Fervor
B-“If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.”
M- The small pre-schoolers showed fervor whenever the teacher asked me to answer a question on the bales, which can’t be said about other classes.
D-great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor.
intense heat.
M-talking or just cause
Demented
B-“One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”
M- The shocking, painful, depressing, and demented incident that human participated in indirectly shocked it when the realization on what had just happened became clear.
D-crazy; insane; mad.
affected with dementia.
M-abnormal or demonic
Palled
B-“At length even this palled.”
M- The teacher was astonished at Lamar, the student, when he showed how palled he felt about her feelings.
D-to become distasteful or unpleasant.
M-stopped
Corpulent
B-“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
M- The newborn baby was even more corpulent than a whale, which is very surprising and almost unbelievable.
D-large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.
M-strange or entrancing
Derision
B-“Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
M- Derision among students was very common at Little Pond Junior High school, due to the tiny amount of attention that the teachers gave their students.
D-ridicule; mockery
M-downgrade not or disrespect, undermined
Sauntered
B-“Seeing there was no immediate likelihood of a pause, Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass.”
M- Mothers from all over the world sauntered into the middle of their courts of justice and began to eat cupcakes in vast amounts.
D-to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll
M-walk or strut in a direction
Abominable
B-“It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.”
M- The abominable creature surfed the area and slowly stalked its first victims after over one-thousand years of an eternal slumber curse that was interrupted by a single ant.
D-repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome
M-an abomination
