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Lord of the Flies Diction Flashcards

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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

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Lessened

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Enveloped

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Surrounded

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Subsided

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Waned

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Assented

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Agreed

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Indignantly

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Righteously upset

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Recrimination

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Accusation

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Tumult

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Uproar

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Festooned

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Decorated

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Awe

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Respectful fear; dreadful amazement

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Tirade

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Long, critical lecture

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Unheeded

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Unnoticed

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Chronic

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Habitual

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Crooning

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Singing softly

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Appalled

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Shocked; horrified

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Irked

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Annoyed

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Incredulously

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Skeptically

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Malevolently

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Hatefully

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Bewildered

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Confused

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Wit

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Intelligence

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Lavatory

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Bathroom

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Testily

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Easily annoyed

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Lamentation

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Sorrow

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Perilous

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Dangerous

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Mimicry

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Imitation

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Inarticulate

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Not able to be expressed

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Furtively

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Secretly

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Swerved

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Turned suddenly

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Brandishing

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Waving; shaking

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Impervious

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Not bothered by

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Consent

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Agreement

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Prospered

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Increased

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Interspersed

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Mixed

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Corpluent

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Really fat; obese

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Meekly

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Timidly

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Derision

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Scorn; ridicule

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Succulent

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Juicy

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Tremulously

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Nervously

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Aimlessly

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Without direction

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Inquisitive

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Curious

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Steadfast

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Unchanging

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Solemnly

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Seriously

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Interrogative

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Questioning

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Rebuked

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Scolded

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Writhing

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Twisting

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Quavering

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Trembling

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Myopia

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Nearsightedness

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Ludicrous

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Ridiculous

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Exulting

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Rejoicing

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Inscrutably

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Mysteriously

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Truculently

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Aggressive

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Delirious

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Frenzied

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Jeer

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Laugh scornfully

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Inimical

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Unfriendly

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Goaded

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Provoked

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Ravenously

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Hungrily

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Inevitably

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Unavoidable

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Grimaced

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Frowned

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Menace

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Threat

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Pursued

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Chased; hunted

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Wary

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Cautious

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Asent

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Rise; upward movement

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Bastion

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Fortification

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Defiles

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Narrow passage ways or gorges

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Dubiety

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Doubt

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Efflorescence

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Flowering; crystallizing

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Effulgence

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Radiance

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Fulcrum

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Point at which a lever is placed

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Hiatus

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Break or gap

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Immured

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Imprisoned; trapped

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Jetty

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Landing wharf; pier

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Loitered

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Lingered; dawdled

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Mortification

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Embarrassment

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Pallidly

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Palely; sickly

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