Lord of The Flies Flashcards
Lagoon
“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon”
My def: a body of sea.
Def:an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
Sentence: Visitors stay in a ranch in the rainforest overlooking a volcanic lagoon.
Clamber
“He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.”
My def: crawling of the ground with massive force.
Def: to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.
Sentence:Clambering over boulders to the left reveals part of a large old passage.
Vainly
“He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.”
My def: something that doesn’t happen that often.
Def: excessively proud of or concerned about one’s own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.
Sentence: we tried vainly to have the decision to appeal.
Quiver
“The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon”
My def: frightened, moving your body slightly forward and upward
Def: to shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
Sentence: Quiver tip rod, seat box or whatever was flavor of the week.
Decorous
“Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.”
My def: with a different personality.
Def: characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
Sentence:In these coffee-houses, however, there generally prevails a very decorous stillness and silence.
Interpose
“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.”
My def: getting in the way.
Def: to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose
Sentence: Interposes an additional barrier between the Xhost and the clients.
Strident
“The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.”
My def:
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Def:making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking:
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Scupper
My def: a flow of water that goes downward.
Def: a drain at the edge of a deck exposed to the weather, for allowing accumulated water to drain away into the sea or into the bilges.
Sentence: Scupper the chances of 1 or 2 of the transfer burning leaders.
Speculate
“Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated.”
My def: having a focus mind in one subject
Def: to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
Sentence:Speculate about the implications of further investigation.
Clamor
“Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself.”
My def: a group of loud noises
Def:a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
Sentence:Clamor for justice and peace by our underdeveloped countries will be ignored once again.
Pallor
“Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse.”
My def: someone that look pale or sick
Def: unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
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Indignation
“Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks.”
My def: embarrassing one another
Def: strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
Sentence: The attack by the fascists had aroused the greatest indignation among the workers.
Grating
“This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.”
My def: a screeching sound
Def: a fixed frame of bars or the like covering an opening to exclude persons, animals, coarse material, or objects while admitting light, air, or fine material.
Sentence: In particular, diffraction of a wave from a thick sinusoidal grating or acoustic wave.
Warped
“He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular by the fierce light of publicity, and he bored into the coarse grass with one toe.”
My def: someone’s personality changing
Def: to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
Sentence: Warps space-time in the opposite way, like the surface of a saddle
Conch
“That was what you meant, didn’t you? That’s why you got the conch out of the water?”
My def: a seashell that can make a noise/music
Def: the spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.
Sentence: I found only one conch at the beach.
Scornfully
“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!”
My def: talking to someone angrily
Def:full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous:
Sentence: he smiled on a scornful way.
Officious
“There was pushing and pulling and officious cries.”
My def: being aggressive
Def:objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome:
Sentence: They would not welcome any officious interference from the police.
Tumult
“He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood.”
My def: in a shocking state.
Def: violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar
Sentence: The tumult reached its height during the premier’s speech.
Irresistible
“At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.”
My def:something that you can’t ignore
Def:not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood
Sentence:I had a irresistible impulse to eat the muffin cake
Nimble
My def: being quite or humble
Def:quick and light in movement; moving with ease;
Sentence: his body was to nimble for me to stop him
Festoon
“Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees.”
My def: destroyed in a sort of way;chaos.
Def:a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
Sentence: the event hall was festooned with many decorations.
Tendril
“Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node.”
My def: a branch of plants that attaches it’s vines.
Def: a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
Sentence: It reacts to too much shade by sending out a tendril toward whatever light it can find.
Oppressive
“The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.”
My def: being slight rude to another
Def:burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical
Sentence: an oppressive king should be ashamed of himself.
Inscrutable
“Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.”
My def: a object that cannot be discovered
Def:incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
Sentence: this inscrutable piece of object is still unknown.
Barb
“But I shall! Next time! I’ve got to get a barb on this spear!”
My def: hard sharp metal object that can be thrown at animals in the sea.
Def:a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead. See illus. under fishhook.
Sentence:I used a barb on a shark before, but it never worked.
Bewildered
“Ralph gazed bewildered at his rapt face.”
My def: surprise or in the state of being shocked
Def: completely puzzled or confused; perplexed.
Sentence: I was bewildered from seeing my friend from high school.
Flaunt
“A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.”
My def: scattered around on the floor
Def:to parade or display oneself conspicuously, defiantly, or boldly.
to wave conspicuously in the air.
Sentence: she always flaunt her name in fame and wealth for social media.
Furtive
“Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.”
My def: something or someone that can be easily hidden
Def:taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.sly; shifty:
Sentence: he used a furtive manner when I left the building
Glimmer
“The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.”
My def:a shiny bright of light
Def:a faint or unsteady light; gleam.
Sentence: the sun glimmered on my face as I walked away from home.
