Lord Of The Flies Chapter 1-3

Question 0

Lagoon

Answer 0

“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.”
an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
When the weekend weather is good during boating season, as many as a hundred boats try to visit the lagoon.

Question 1

Clamber

Answer 1

“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.”

to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.

He has proved before that he can clamber back out of a hole.

Question 2

Vainly

Answer 2

“My dad’s dead,” he said quickly, “and my mum—”
He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.”
excessively proud of or concerned about one’s own appearance, qualities, achievements, etc.; conceited: a vain dandy.
The helpless creature exhaled with the sound of a dolphin, trying vainly to breathe in the foreign air.

Question 3

Quiver

Answer 3

“The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.”
To shake with a slight but rapid motion; vibrate tremulously; tremble.
Although few residents of the small town were frightened by the tremor, everyone felt the ground quiver, and homes shake.

Question 4

Decorous

Answer 4

“Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.”
Characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.
The language may be more Decorous today, but the ideas are the same.

Question 5

Interpose

Answer 5

“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”
to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
And the speaker may interpose his own personality between you and the poem, for better or worse.

Question 6

Strident

Answer 6

“The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.”
making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking: strident insects; strident hinges.
strident signs everywhere firmly forbid you to take any photographs.

Question 7

Scupper

Answer 7

Nautical. 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. Compare freeing port.
Scientists find that some types of sea snake possess homing behavior that may scupper conservation efforts.

Question 8

Speculate

Answer 8

“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.”
to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
Many have speculated about which real-life animals inspired the first legends.

Question 9

Clamor

Answer 9

“The conch was silent, a gleaming tusk; Ralph’s face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing.”
a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
Now oil prices are so high that some of the oil-fired power plants sit idle, even as people clamor for more electricity.

Question 10

Pallor

Answer 10

“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.”
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.

Question 11

Indignation

Answer 11

“He turned and raced after the other two. Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks. He went back to the platform.”
strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base; righteous anger.
But let’s watch the self-righteous indignation and reserve a little anger for the enablers.

Question 12

Jumble

Answer 12

“There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon. Sea birds were nesting there.”
to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order: You’ve jumbled up all the cards.
The jumble of large gray bodies punctuated by pink eyes and ears made for a compelling image.

Question 13

Grating

Answer 13

“This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.”
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.
Wash, trim and grate zucchini, using grating blade of food processor.

Question 14

Warped

Answer 14

“He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark. He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular by the fierce light of publicity, and he bored into the coarse grass with one toe.”
to bend or twist out of shape, especially from a straight or flat form, as timbers or flooring.
The push for more prestige has warped the admissions process, the report says, at a cost to both colleges and the nation.

Question 15

Conch

Answer 15

“A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It’s ever so valuable-“
the spiral shell of a gastropod, often used as a horn.
Close by are a diamond-encrusted conch shell and discus, his traditional accessories.

Question 16

Scornful

Answer 16

“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!”
full of scorn; derisive; contemptuous: He smiled in a scornful way.
The genuine antiquary would scornfully call anything modern whose date could be placed this side of the century mark.

Question 17

Officious

Answer 17

“Stand out of the light.”
There was pushing and pulling and officious cries.”
objectionably aggressive in offering one’s unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.
These officious, self-important twerps can do whatever they want, alas.

Question 18

Tumult

Answer 18

“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.”
violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar: The tumult reached its height during the premier’s speech.
People seem to want this, as opposed to urban tumult and squalor.

Question 19

Irresistible

Answer 19

“Acres of black and yellow smoke rolled steadily toward the sea. At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.”

not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood: an irresistible impulse.
The challenge and the novelty of making up a quiz for my father were irresistible.