Lord of the Flies Chapter 7-9 Flashcards
crestfallen
“I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
Definition: Having a drooping crest or hanging head
New Sentence: He has crestfallen on floor.
coverts
“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.”
Definition: Not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed.
Sentence: He was coverts over his work.
glowered
“Jack glowered.”
Definition: To look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger
Sentence: He have glowed all morning because he got in trouble.
daunting
“The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.”
Definition: Tending to overwhelm or intimidate
Sentence: The speech of the teacher was to daunting.
impervious
“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.”
Definition: Not allowing entrance or passage.
Sentence: The club was impervious to all people who was trying to get inside of the bar.
prefect
“He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him”
Definition: any of various high officials or magistrates of differing functions and ranks in ancient Rome
Sentence: “Their is an prefect out side of our house,” said Jimmy.
rebuke
“Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.”
Definition: To criticize sharply.
Sentence: John was rebuking on Jimmy.
demure
“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”
Definition: Not attracting or demanding a lot of attention : not showy or flashy.
Sentence: The group was demure all last week.
fervor
“If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show”
Definition: Intensity of feeling or expression s speech.
demented
“One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”
Definition: Mad, insan, or suffering from and with exhibiting cognitive dementia.
Sentence: The leader was demented for a movenment.
palled
“Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them.”
Definition: To lose strength or effectiveness
Sentence: The car was palled from yesterday.
corpulent
“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
Definition:
Sentence:
derision
“Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
Definition: The use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt.
sentence: The charter was derision to the others in the group.
sauntered
“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.”
Definition : To walk about in an idle or leisurely manner : stroll.
Sentence: He was sauntered at the end of this brench.
abominable
“It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.”
Definition: Worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable.
Sentence: That was an abominable noise out side.
