Vocab Flashcards
Enmity
state of feeding opposed to something
(a) pg14:. He trotted through sand, enduring the suns enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes
chorister
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
Hiatus
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
- Effloresence
pg12: It was clear to the bottom and bright with the effloresence of tropical weed and coral.
(b) loss ef water by hidrated salt
Decorous
a) Pg15: suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement”
b) In Keeling with good taste and profiety
Recrimination
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.
Tirade
Pg45: By now they were listening to the tirade.
b) A long and angry speech or verbal attack
Tumult
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
Ebullience
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.
Inscrutable
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
Declivities
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
Tacit
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
Vicissitudes
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
oppressive
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
Blatant
pg58:Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility
b)Something that is obvious
Sinewy
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
Malevolently
a)pg71:Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack.
b) Referring to a person motivated to do harm
Ludicrous
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
Jeer
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
Inarticulate
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
Leviathan
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
Mutinously
Pg: Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering.
rebellious
Bastion
Pg: This side of the castle, perhaps a hundred feet high, was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top.
Fortress
Impervious
a)So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming
b)not capable of being affected.
Glowered
a)Jack glowered.
b) angry gesture
Enterprise
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
Crestfallen
a)”I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
Sad
Demure
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
Fervor
a)If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it
b)intense
Taboo
a)”Jack.” A taboo was evolving round that word too
b)no one talks about
Corpulent
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
Sauntered
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.
clamorously
a) Between the flashes of lightning the air was dark and terrible; and the boys followed him, clamorously.
b)attention/ attraction
Compelled
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
Myopia
a)The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia.
b)vision condition
Rebuke
a)Piggy rebuked him with dignity.
b)sharp disapproval
Quavered
a)”Am I safe?” quavered Piggy. “I feel awful―”
b)shake or tremble in speaking
Talisman
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.
Parried
a)He struck in a humming circle behind him and Ralph only just parried the blow.
b)counter movement
Sniveling
a)’Piggy broke off, sniveling. Ralph took back the conch as he sat down.
b)action of crying
Ineffectual
a)He numbered them through his fringe, glimpsed the ineffectual smoke
b)not producing any or the desired effect
Cordon
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
Acrid
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.
Epaulletes
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.
Elephantine
of great mass; huge and bulky
Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea. p.194
luminous
softly bright or radiant
The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia. p.169
