Lord of the Flies Diction Flashcards by Kohl Buzash

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Proclaimed

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Announced

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Prominent

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Noticeable

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Clambering

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Climbing

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Concealed

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Hid

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Incredulous

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Disbelieving

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Clamor

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Noisy shouting

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Summit

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Peak

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Contemptuously

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Disrespectfully

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Fluently

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Smoothly and rapidly

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Uninhabited

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Not lived in

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Cradling

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Holding protectively

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Hindering

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Holding back

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Induced

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Brought about; persuaded

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Decline

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Sinking

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Rational

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Reasonable

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Exasperation

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Frustration

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Compelled

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Forced

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Spontaneously

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Impulsively

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Smirking

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Smiling in a conceited way

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Ebullience

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Enthusiasm

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Caressed

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Stroked

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Errant

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Wandering

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Staggered

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Tottered

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Officious

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Voluntary; unasked for help

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Diminished

Lessened

Enveloped

Surrounded

Subsided

Waned

Assented

Agreed

Indignantly

Righteously upset

Recrimination

Accusation

Tumult

Uproar

Festooned

Decorated

Awe

Respectful fear; dreadful amazement

Tirade

Long, critical lecture

Unheeded

Unnoticed

Chronic

Habitual

Crooning

Singing softly

Appalled

Shocked; horrified

Irked

Annoyed

Incredulously

Skeptically

Malevolently

Hatefully

Bewildered

Confused

Wit

Intelligence

Lavatory

Bathroom

Testily

Easily annoyed

Lamentation

Sorrow

Perilous

Dangerous

Mimicry

Imitation

Inarticulate

Not able to be expressed

Furtively

Secretly

Swerved

Turned suddenly

Brandishing

Waving; shaking

Impervious

Not bothered by

Consent

Agreement

Prospered

Increased

Interspersed

Mixed

Corpluent

Really fat; obese

Meekly

Timidly

Derision

Scorn; ridicule

Succulent

Juicy

Tremulously

Nervously

Aimlessly

Without direction

Inquisitive

Curious

Steadfast

Unchanging

Solemnly

Seriously

Interrogative

Questioning

Rebuked

Scolded

Writhing

Twisting

Quavering

Trembling

Myopia

Nearsightedness

Ludicrous

Ridiculous

Exulting

Rejoicing

Inscrutably

Mysteriously

Truculently

Aggressive

Delirious

Frenzied

Jeer

Laugh scornfully

Inimical

Unfriendly

Goaded

Provoked

Ravenously

Hungrily

Inevitably

Unavoidable

Grimaced

Frowned

Menace

Threat

Pursued

Chased; hunted

Wary

Cautious

Asent

Rise; upward movement

Bastion

Fortification

Defiles

Narrow passage ways or gorges

Dubiety

Doubt

Efflorescence

Flowering; crystallizing

Effulgence

Radiance

Fulcrum

Point at which a lever is placed

Hiatus

Break or gap

Immured

Imprisoned; trapped

Jetty

Landing wharf; pier

Loitered

Lingered; dawdled

Mortification

Embarrassment

Pallidly

Palely; sickly