LOTF Unit Test Vocab Flashcards
Specious
a) adjective
b) having a false look of truth or genuineness
c) “Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed” (12).
effulgence
a) noun
b) radiant splendor
c) “With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence” (14).
enmity
a) noun
b) positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
c) “He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun’s enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes” (14).
decorous
a) adjective
b) marked by propriety and good taste
c) “Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement” (15).
indignation
a) noun
b) anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean
c) “Piggy stood and the rose of indignation faded slowly from his cheeks”(25).
hiatus
a) noun
b) an interruption in time or continuity
c) “There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm” (31).
ebullience
a) noun
b) the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings
c) “Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar” (38)
recrimination
a) noun
b) a retaliatory accusation
c) “His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination.” (43)
tumult
a) noun
b) disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices
c) “He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood” (43).
furtive
a) adjective
b) one in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed
c) “Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees” (49).
inscrutable
a) adjective
b) not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood
c) “Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail” (49).
incredulous
a) adjective
b) unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true
c) “They were silent again: Simon intent, Ralph incredulous and faintly indignant” (53).
belligerence
a) an aggressive or truculent attitude, atmosphere, or disposition
b) noun
c) “Percival was mousecolored and had not been very attractive even to his mother; Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence” (60.
chastisement
a) noun
b) to inflict punishment on (as by whipping)
c)” In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand” (60).
incursion
a) noun
b) a hostile entrance into a territory
c) “Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.”().
disinclination
a) noun
b) a preference for avoiding something : slight aversion
c) “There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor” (65).
derisive
a) adjective
b) expressing or causing contemptuous ridicule or scorn : expressing or causing deerision
c) “The derisive laughter that rose had fear in it and condemnation” (86).
discursive
a) adjective
b) moving from topic to topic without order
c) “The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight” (92).
incantation
a) noun
b) a use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic
c) “Then the wail rose, remote and unearthly,’ and turned to an inarticulate gibbering. Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.” (94).
interminable
a) adjective
b) having or seeming to have no end
c)”An interminable dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter” (99).
tremulously
a) adjective
b) characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors
c) “The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news” (99).
leviathan
a) noun
b) a sea monster defeated by Yahweh in various scriptural accounts
c) “Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar” (105).
decorum
a) noun
b) propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance
c) “Not one of them was an obvious subject for a shower, and yet―hair, much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or a twig; faces cleaned fairly well by the process of eating and sweating but marked in the less accessible angles with a kind of shadow; clothes, worn away, stiff like his own with sweat, put on, not for decorum or comfort but out of custom; the skin of the body, scurfy with brine― He discovered with a little fall of the heart that these were the conditions he took as normal now and that he did not mind” (110).
apprehension
a) noun
b) suspicion or fear especially of future evil
c) “Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride” (113).
sagely
a) adverb
b) in a sage or wise manner
c) “Everybody agreed, sagely” (118).
antagonism
a) noun
b) opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle
c) “Ralph sighed, sensing the rising antagonism, understanding that this was how Jack felt as soon as he ceased to lead” (118).
impervious
a) adjective
b) not allowing entrance or passage
c) “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” (121).
bravado
a) noun
b) blustering swaggering conduct
c) “Ralph surprised himself, not so much by the quality of his voice, which was even, but by the bravado of its intention” (122).
contempuous
a) adjective
b) manifesting, feeling, or expressing deep hatred or disapproval
c) “‘Go up and see,’ said Jack contemptuously, ‘and good riddance’ ” (124).
cynicism
a) noun
b) Cynical attitude or quality
c) “The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life” (137
indignity
a) noun
b) an act that offends against a person’s dignity or self-respect
c) “He opened his eyes quickly and there was the head grinning amusedly in the strange daylight, ignoring the flies, the spilled guts, even ignoring the indignity of being spiked on a stick” (137).
iridescent
a) adjective
b) having or exhibiting iridescence
c) “They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned” (138).
corpulent
KIYAANS FOREHEAD
a) adjective
b) having a large bulky body
c) “Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more” (146).
parody
a) noun
b) a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule
c) “Piggy and the parody were so funny that the hunters began to laugh” (146).
succulent
a) adjective
b) full of juice
c) “The boys with the spit gave Ralph and Piggy each a succulent chunk. They took the gift, dribbling” (149).
gesticulating
a) noun
b) to make gestures especially when speaking
c) “He was gesticulating, searching for a formula” (56).
stricken
a) adjective
b) afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by disease, misfortune, or sorrow
c) “Ralph’s voice, low and stricken, stopped Piggy’s gestures” (156).
convulsively
a) adjective
b) resembling a convulsion in being violent, sudden, frantic, or spasmodic
c) “Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively” (158).
torrid
a) adjective
b) parched with heat especially of the sun
c) “Sitting on the tremendous rock in the torrid sun, Roger received this news as an illumination” (159).
luminous
a) adjective
b) emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light
c) “The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia” (169).
myopia
a) noun
b) a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects
c) “The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia” (169).
propitiatingly
a) adverb
b) in a propitiating manner : so as to appease or conciliate
c) “Piggy nodded propitiatingly” (173).
truculent
a) adjective
b) aggressively self-assertive
c) “Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance” (177)
inimical
a) adjective
b) being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence
c) “To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire” (187).
ululation
a) verb
b) to utter a loud, usually protracted, high-pitched, rhythmical sound especially as an expression of sorrow, joy, celebration, or reverence
c) “Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ululation by beating on his open mouth” (189).
crepitation
a) verb
b) to make a crackling sound
c) “He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane” (194)
