lord of the flies vocab

Question 1

specious

Answer 1

adj: superficially plausible, but actually wrong: misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive

Question 2

interposed

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to place or insert between one thing and another

insinuate, place, insert, intercede

Question 3

incredulous

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adj: disinclined or indisposed to belief; indicating or showing unbelief
unbelieving, skeptical

Question 4

pallidly

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adj: pale: faint or deficient in color; lacking in vitality or interest

Question 5

mortification

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a feeling of humiliation or shame; a cause or source of shame

Question 6

clouted

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verb: to strike, especially with the hand

Question 7

pliant

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adj: bending readily: flexible; supple; adaptable ; easily influenced

Question 8

ebullience

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noun: high spirits, exhilaration, exuberance; a boiling over or over flow spiritedness

Question 9

officious

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meddlesome, annoyingly aggressive in offering one’s unwanted services, help, or advice

Question 10

inscrutable

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adj: incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized, impenetrable, not easily understood, mysterious

Question 11

gaudy

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brilliantly or excessively showy; cheaply showy in a tasteless way: flashy

Question 12

gyration

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act of gyrating, or circular or spiral motion; motion

Question 13

tempestuously

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characterized by or subject to tempests; turbulent; tumultuous

Question 14

interminable

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incapable of being terminated

Question 15

diffidently

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lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth or fitness; timid; shy; restrained or reserved in manner or conduct

Question 16

furtively

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to do something by stealth or in secret; sly

Question 17

decorum

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dignified propriety of behavior, speech, dress, etc.

Question 18

obtusenees

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not quick or alert in perception, feeling, or intellect; not sensitive observant; dull; blunt in form; indistinctly felt or perceived

Question 19

floundering

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to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements

Question 20

indignantly

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feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting

Question 21

rebuke

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to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand;

Question 22

demure

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characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved

Question 23

iridescent

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displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow

Question 24

festooned

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to adorn or decorate with something

Question 25

corpulent

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large or bulky of body; fat

Question 26

derision

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ridicule, mockery

Question 27

saunter

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to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll; ramble, meander

Question 28

phosphorescence

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propert of being luminous, ghostly glow

Question 29

torrid

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subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun; oppressively hot; ardent, passionate

Question 30

delirious

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wild with excitement