vocab lotf

Question 1

specious

Answer 1

misleading in appearance, especially misleadingly attractive.

adjective

“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.”

Question 2

effulgence

Answer 2

adjective

shining brightly; radiant.

“With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.”

Question 3

enmity

Answer 3

the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something

Question 4

decorous

Answer 4

adjective

in keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained.

“Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with decorous excitement.”

Question 5

Indignation

Answer 5

noun

anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.

“Indignation took away Ralph’s control.”

Question 6

hiatus

Answer 6

a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process.

Question 7

ebullience

Answer 7

noun

the quality of being cheerful and full of energy; exuberance.

“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 8

recrimination

Answer 8

noun

an accusation in response to one from someone else.

“ ‘That’s what I said! I said about our meetings and things and then you said shut up–’ His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination”

Question 9

tumult

Answer 9

noun

a loud, confused noise, especially one caused by a large mass of people.

“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.”

Question 10

furtive

Answer 10

attempting to avoid

Question 11

inscrutable

Answer 11

impossible to understand or interpret.

Question 12

incredulous

Answer 12

(of a person or their manner) unwilling or unable to believe something.

Question 13

belligerence

Answer 13

noun

aggressive or warlike behavior.

“Percival was mouse-colored and had not been very attractive even to his mother; Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence.”

Question 14

chastisement

Answer 14

a severe criticism or punishment

Question 15

incursion

Answer 15

noun

an invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one.

“With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field. 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.”

Question 16

disinclination

Answer 16

noun

a reluctance or lack of enthusiasm.

“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”.

Question 17

derisive

Answer 17

adjective

expressing contempt or ridicule.

“The derisive laughter that rose had fear in it and condemnation.The derisive laughter that rose had fear in it and condemnation.”

Question 18

discursive

Answer 18

adjective

digressing from subject to subject.

“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.”

Question 19

incantation

Answer 19

noun

a series of words said as a magic spell or charm.

“Then the wail rose, remote and unearthly, and turned to an inarticulate gibbering. Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Home Page Title Page Contents !! “” ! Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.”

Question 20

interminable

Answer 20

Endless

Question 21

tremulously

Answer 21

Adverb

Of a person/object shaking or quivering

“The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news” (99)

Question 22

leviathan

Answer 22

A biblical sea monster

Question 23

decorum

Answer 23

noun

behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.

“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”

Question 24

apprehension

Answer 24

anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

Question 25

sagely

Answer 25

adverb

in a profoundly wise manner.

“ ‘I found a pig-run. It went for miles.’ ‘So the pig-run must be somewhere in there.’ Ralph nodded. He pointed at the forest. Everybody agreed, sagely.”

Question 26

antagonism

Answer 26

active hostility or opposition.

Question 27

impervious

Answer 27

not allowing fluid to pass through.

Question 28

bravado

Answer 28

a bold manner or a show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate.

Question 29

contemptuous

Answer 29

adjective

showing contempt; scornful.

“ ‘You couldn’t light them,’ said Ralph. ‘They just look like candles.’ ‘Green candles,’ said Jack contemptuously. ‘We can’t eat them. Come on.’ ”

Question 30

cynicism

Answer 30

an inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest; skepticism.

Question 31

indignity

Answer 31

treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or to lose one’s dignity.

Question 32

iridescent

Answer 32

showing luminous colors that seem to change when seen from different angles.

Question 33

corpulant

Answer 33

(of a person) fat.

Question 34

parody

Answer 34

an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.`

Question 35

succulent

Answer 35

adjective

(of food) tender, juicy, and tasty.

“The boys with the spit gave Ralph and Piggy each a succulent chunk. They took the gift, dribbling. So they stood and ate beneath a sky of thunderous brass that rang with the storm-coming.”

Question 36

gesticulating

Answer 36

use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one’s words.

Question 37

stricken

Answer 37

seriously affected by an undesirable condition or unpleasant feeling.

Question 38

convulsively

Answer 38

resembling a convulsion in being violent, sudden, frantic, or spasmodic.

Question 39

torrid

Answer 39

very hot and dry.

Question 40

luminous

Answer 40

full of or shedding light; bright or shining, especially in the dark.

Question 41

myopia

Answer 41

nearsightedness.

Question 42

propitiatingly

Answer 42

adverb

in a propitiating manner : so as to appease or conciliate.

“ ‘I hadn’t,” said Ralph loudly. “I knew it all the time. I hadn’t forgotten.” Piggy nodded propitiatingly.”

Answer 43

adejctive

eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.

“adejctive
eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant.
“Truculently they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.”
they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.”

Question 44

inimical

Answer 44

Adjective
tending to obstruct or harm.
“There was no reply. To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire.”

Question 45

ululation

Answer 45

“:He had just time to realize that the age-long nightmares of falling and death were past and that the morning was come, when he heard the sound again. It was an ululation over by the seashore— and now the next savage answered and the next. The cry swept by him across the narrow end of the island from sea to lagoon, like the cry of a flying bird.”
to utter a loud, usually protracted, high-pitched, rhythmical sound especially as an expression of sorrow, joy, celebration, or reverence : HOWL
verb