Vocab

Question 1

Enmity

Answer 1

state of feeding opposed to something
(a) pg14:. He trotted through sand, enduring the suns enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes

Question 2

chorister

Answer 2

a) pg:22 “I ought to be cheif!”, said jack with simple arrogance, “because I’m Chapter Chorister and head boy
b) child in a Choir

Question 3

Hiatus

Answer 3

a) Pg31. 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”
b) a pause or gap in the process

Question 4

4. Effloresence

Answer 4

pg12: It was clear to the bottom and bright with the effloresence of tropical weed and coral.
(b) loss ef water by hidrated salt

Question 5

Decorous

Answer 5

a) Pg15: suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement”
b) In Keeling with good taste and profiety

Question 6

Recrimination

Answer 6

pg43:His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination. They stirred and began to shout him down.
b) counter-accusation where you are blaming the other person for doing something wrong.

Question 7

Tirade

Answer 7

Pg45: By now they were listening to the tirade.
b) A long and angry speech or verbal attack

Question 8

Tumult

Answer 8

pg43: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. Then he laughed so strangely that they were hushed, looking at the flash of his spectacles in astonishment. They followed his gaze to find the sour joke
b) A state of confusion noise

Question 9

Ebullience

Answer 9

Cheerful
pg38: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.

Question 10

Inscrutable

Answer 10

a)pg49:The droppings were warm. They lay piled among turned earth. They were olive green, and smooth, and they steamed a little. Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creepers that lay across the trail.
b)Impossible to understand or interpret due to superstition

Question 11

Declivities

Answer 11

Pg54: But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island.
Down words slope

Question 12

Tacit

Answer 12

a)pg55:Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool.
b)understood

Question 13

Vicissitudes

Answer 13

a)pg49: Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.
b) change of circumstances

Question 14

oppressive

Answer 14

a)pg49:The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.
b) power or authority that unjust

Question 15

Blatant

Answer 15

pg58:Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility
b)Something that is obvious

Question 16

Sinewy

Answer 16

a)pg64:Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them
b)Having strong and tough muscles or tendons

Question 17

Malevolently

Answer 17

a)pg71:Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack.
b) Referring to a person motivated to do harm

Question 18

Ludicrous

Answer 18

pg : He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.
b)Something so absurd or ridiculous

Question 19

Jeer

Answer 19

g; A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer, rose among the seated boys. Piggy ducked his head and went on hastily
b)To make fun of or mock someone or something

Question 20

Inarticulate

Answer 20

a)pg: Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness. Inspiration came to him.
b)Someone unable to express themselves clearly

Question 21

Leviathan

Answer 21

a)pg: Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar.
powerful creature

Question 22

Mutinously

Answer 22

Pg: Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering.
rebellious

Question 23

Bastion

Answer 23

Pg: This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top.
Fortress

Question 24

Impervious

Answer 24

a)So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming
b)not capable of being affected.

Question 25

Glowered

Answer 25

a)Jack glowered.
b) angry gesture

Question 26

Enterprise

Answer 26

Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist’s chair unrealit
undertaking something with purpose

Question 27

Crestfallen

Answer 27

a)”I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
Sad

Question 28

Demure

Answer 28

a)Each of them wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.
b)modist

Question 29

Fervor

Answer 29

a)If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it
b)intense

Question 30

Taboo

Answer 30

a)”Jack.” A taboo was evolving round that word too
b)no one talks about

Question 31

Corpulent

Answer 31

a). Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.
b)fat man

Question 32

Sauntered

Answer 32

Seeing there was no immediate likelihood of a pause, Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass
b) without hurry or effort.

Question 33

clamorously

Answer 33

a) Between the flashes of lightning the air was dark and terrible; and the boys followed him, clamorously.
b)attention/ attraction

Question 34

Compelled

Answer 34

a)”We gave them something to think about,” said Sam. Honesty compelled him to go on. “At least you did. I got mixed up with myself in a corner.”
b)drive forcibly

Question 35

Myopia

Answer 35

a)The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia.
b)vision condition

Question 36

Rebuke

Answer 36

a)Piggy rebuked him with dignity.
b)sharp disapproval

Question 37

Quavered

Answer 37

a)”Am I safe?” quavered Piggy. “I feel awful―”
b)shake or tremble in speaking

Question 38

Talisman

Answer 38

a)By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell
An object that has magic powers and brings good luck.

Question 39

Parried

Answer 39

a)He struck in a humming circle behind him and Ralph only just parried the blow.
b)counter movement

Question 40

Sniveling

Answer 40

a)’Piggy broke off, sniveling. Ralph took back the conch as he sat down.
b)action of crying

Question 41

Ineffectual

Answer 41

a)He numbered them through his fringe, glimpsed the ineffectual smoke
b)not producing any or the desired effect

Question 42

Cordon

Answer 42

a) The cordon would turn and sweep again. Sooner or later he would have to sleep or eat―and then he would awaken with hands clawing at him; and the hunt would become a running down.
b)a line or circle of authority

Question 43

Acrid

Answer 43

a)He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the acrid scent of salt and sweat and the staleness of dirt.
b)strong and unpleasant smell.

Question 44

Epaulletes

Answer 44

an ornamental cloth pad worn on the shoulder

He saw white drill, epaulettes, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform.

Question 45

Elephantine

Answer 45

of great mass; huge and bulky

Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea. p.194

Question 46

luminous

Answer 46

softly bright or radiant

The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia. p.169