Vocabulary Chapter 7-9

Question 0

crestfallen

Answer 0

feeling shame or humiliation;

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

Question 1

coverts

Answer 1

underbrush providing cover for game;

“If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.”

Question 2

glowered

Answer 2

looked with annoyance or anger;

“Jack–that time you went the whole way to the castle rock.”
Jack glowered.”

Question 3

daunting

Answer 3

discouraging, dismaying;

“The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.”

Question 4

impervious

Answer 4

incapable of being affected;

“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.”

Question 5

prefect

Answer 5

chief officer, monitor in private school;

“He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him.”

Question 6

rebuke

Answer 6

reprimand, criticize, reprove;

“Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.”

Question 7

demure

Answer 7

modest, reserved;

“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.”

Question 8

fervor

Answer 8

emotional intensity, passion;

“If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.”

Question 9

demented

Answer 9

mad, insane;

“One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”

Question 10

palled

Answer 10

lost its attraction;

“At length even this palled.”

Question 11

corpulent

Answer 11

obese, excessively fat;

“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”

Question 12

derision

Answer 12

contemptuous laughter, ridicule;

“Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”

Question 13

sauntered

Answer 13

walked at a leisurely pace;

“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.”

Question 14

abominable

Answer 14

detestable, unpleasant;

“It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.”