Lord Of The Flies

Question 0

Lagoon

Answer 0

area of shallow water

“Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon.”

Question 1

Clamber

Answer 1

To shuffle or climb using both hands and feet

“Roger clambered up the ladder-like cliff.
“Look at this.”

Question 2

vainly

Answer 2

Without success

“He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.”

Question 3

Quiver

Answer 3

Tremble or shake with a slightly rapidly motion

“His lips quivered and the spectacles were dimmed with mist.”

Question 4

Decorous

Answer 4

Proper; marked by good taste

“Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.”

Question 5

Interpose

Answer 5

Place or insert between two things

“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.”

Question 6

Strident

Answer 6

Loud and harsh

“: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.”

Question 7

Scupper

Answer 7

To deliberately sink

Question 8

Speculate

Answer 8

To casually talk and make predictions without firm evidence

“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.”

Question 9

Clamor

Answer 9

A loud and confused noise

“Ralph’s face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing.”

Question 10

Pallor

Answer 10

An extreme or unnatural paleness

“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.”

Question 11

Indignation

Answer 11

A feeling of righteous anger

“Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks.”

Question 12

Jumble

Answer 12

Untidy collection or pile

“There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon.”

Question 13

Grating

Answer 13

Sound unpleasant and annoying

“This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed”

Question 14

Warped

Answer 14

Bent, distorted, pulled out

“He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular by the fierce light of publicity, and he bored into the coarse grass with one toe.”

Question 15

Conch

Answer 15

A large spiral shell of a mollusk, often used as a horn

“S’right. It’s a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone’s back wall. A conch he called it.”

Question 16

Scornfully

Answer 16

With contempt or derision

“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!”

Question 17

Officious

Answer 17

Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

“There was pushing and pulling and officious cries.”

Question 18

Tumult

Answer 18

A state of commotion, noise, and confusion

“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.”

Question 19

Irresistible

Answer 19

Not capable of being refused

“At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.”

Question 20

Nimble

Answer 20

Quick and agile

Question 21

Festoon

Answer 21

Decorate with strings of flowers

“Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that festooned the dead or dying trees.”

Question 22

Tendril

Answer 22

A stemlike structure of climbing plants that holds onto walls and other objects

“Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node”

Question 23

Oppressive

Answer 23

Weighing heavily on the senses or sprit

“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.”

Question 24

Inscrutable

Answer 24

Impossible to understand or interpret

“Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.”

Question 25

Barb

Answer 25

A sharp tip

“I’ve got to get a barb on this spear!”

Question 26

Bewildered

Answer 26

Dumbfounded

“Ralph gazed bewildered at his rapt face.
“—they get up high. High up and in the shade, resting during the heat, like cows at home—”
“I thought you saw a ship!”

Question 27

Flaunt

Answer 27

The act if displaying something ostentatiously

“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.”

Question 28

Furtive

Answer 28

Secret and sly or sordid

“was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy. He muttered that his name was Roger and was silent again.”

Question 29

Glimmer

Answer 29

A flash of light

“The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.”