lord of the flies vocab Flashcards
specious
adj: superficially plausible, but actually wrong: misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive
interposed
to place or insert between one thing and another
insinuate, place, insert, intercede
incredulous
adj: disinclined or indisposed to belief; indicating or showing unbelief
unbelieving, skeptical
pallidly
adj: pale: faint or deficient in color; lacking in vitality or interest
mortification
a feeling of humiliation or shame; a cause or source of shame
clouted
verb: to strike, especially with the hand
pliant
adj: bending readily: flexible; supple; adaptable ; easily influenced
ebullience
noun: high spirits, exhilaration, exuberance; a boiling over or over flow spiritedness
officious
meddlesome, annoyingly aggressive in offering one’s unwanted services, help, or advice
inscrutable
adj: incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized, impenetrable, not easily understood, mysterious
gaudy
brilliantly or excessively showy; cheaply showy in a tasteless way: flashy
gyration
act of gyrating, or circular or spiral motion; motion
tempestuously
characterized by or subject to tempests; turbulent; tumultuous
interminable
incapable of being terminated
diffidently
lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth or fitness; timid; shy; restrained or reserved in manner or conduct
furtively
to do something by stealth or in secret; sly
decorum
dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.
obtusenees
not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive observant; dull; blunt in form; indistinctly felt or perceived
floundering
to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements
indignantly
feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting
rebuke
to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand;
demure
characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved
iridescent
displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow
festooned
to adorn or decorate with something
corpulent
large or bulky of body; fat
derision
ridicule, mockery
saunter
to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll; ramble, meander
phosphorescence
propert of being luminous, ghostly glow
torrid
subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun; oppressively hot; ardent, passionate
delirious
wild with excitement
