Vocabulary

Question 1

Fledged

Answer 1

to cover with or as if with feathers or down.

“The beached was fledged with palm trees.”

Question 2

Motif

Answer 2

a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work.
Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape;

Question 3

Efflorescence

Answer 3

the action or process of developing and unfolding as if coming into flower: blossoming
It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral.

Question 4

Specious:

Answer 4

having deceptive attraction or allure; having a false look of truth or genuineness
Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool.

Question 5

Effulgence:

Answer 5

a brilliant radiance; a shining forth.

The lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.

Question 6

Enmity:

Answer 6

he state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun’s enmity,

Question 7

Fulcrum

Answer 7

The support about which a lever turns

Ralph used one hand as a fulcrum and pressed down with the other till the shell rose.

Question 8

Embossed:

Answer 8

To raise or represent, to decorate, to cause to bulge out

Eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern.

Question 9

Intricacies:

Answer 9

A complex part, action,

A deep, harsh note boomed under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest.

Question 10

Eccentric:

Answer 10

deviating from the recognized or customary character

“The boys, marching in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing.”

Question 11

Matins:

Answer 11

Morning Prayer;

He’s threw a faint,”said Merridew. “He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor.”

Question 12

Precentor

Answer 12

The person presiding over a chior.

He’s threw a faint,”said Merridew. “He did in Gib.; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor.”

Question 13

Pallidly

Answer 13

deficient in color; very pale

The choir boy who fainted looked pallidly at Ralph

Question 14

Mortification:

Answer 14

a sense of humiliation and shame caused by something that wounds one’s pride.
The choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification

Question 15

Suffusion:

Answer 15

spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light.

“The suffusion drained away from Jack’s face

Question 16

Pallor:

Answer 16

Unusual or extreme or extreme paleness as from fear, ill health, or death.
Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy

Question 17

Dispersal:

Answer 17

The act or process of breaking up and spreading out.

There was a great dispersal.

Question 18

Askew:

Answer 18

out of line; not organized in an orderly fashion

Some force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so askew, the were often piled on each other.

Question 19

Surmounted:

Answer 19

to mount upon; get on the top of; mount upon and crossover.

The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by askewed block

Question 20

Skewed

Answer 20

to distort especially from a true value or symmetrical form

The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block;

Question 21

Immured:

Answer 21

To imprison; To shut in; seclude or confine

“Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned to the others.”

Question 22

Defiles

Answer 22

a narrow passage or gorge

“The boys chose their way through defiles and over heaps of sharp stone”

Question 23

Lavishly

Answer 23

using or giving in great amounts; prodigal

The overflow of flowers hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest.”

Question 24

Bastion:

Answer 24

a fortified area or position

There was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like pink bastion

Question 25

Hiatus:

Answer 25

A break, gap, or pause in a continuous action or work

“There came a pause, a hiatus, then the pig continued to scream

Question 26

Scurried:

Answer 26

Move hurriedly with short, quick steps.

“Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.”