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Lord of the Flies
Vocabulary List for Lord of the Flies Ch 1-5
| Question | Answer | Sentence |
|---|---|---|
| Fulcrum | (n)the support about which a lever turns | Ralph used one hand as a _____ and pressed down with the other till the shell rose, dripping, and Piggy could make a grab. |
| Furtive | (adj)expressive of stealth | There was a slight, ______ boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy...For a moment his movements were almost ____. |
| Suffusion/Suffuse | (n/v)to spread over as in fluid or light | The _____ drained away from Jack's face. |
| Immured | (v)to enclose within or as if within walls | ____________ in these tangles at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others. |
| Bastion | (n)fortified area or position/something that is considered of strength | There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink ______. |
| Geticulated | (v)to make gestures especially when speaking | He ___________ widely. |
| Errant | straying outside the proper path/wandering | The noise of the ________ assembly faded up the mountain. |
| Ebullience | (n)quality of lively or enthusiastic expressions of thoughts/feelings | Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless _________ of the children, he picked up the conch, turned towards the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar. |
| Recrimination | (n)to retort bitterly | His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous _______. |
| Pall | (n)something that covers (dark gloomy feeling) | A ____ stretched for miles away from the island. |
| Inscrutable | (adj)not readily investigated, interperated, or understood. | Jack lifted his head and stared at the _____ masses of creeper that lay across the trail. |
| Vicissitudes | (n)a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life. | Jack stood there, steaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the _____ of a day's hunting. |
| Susurration | (n)whispering/murmuring/rustle | The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the _____ of the blood. |
| Sepals | (n)the leafy part of a petal | Their green ____ drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air. |
| Detritus | (n)loose materials (rock fragments or organic material) that result from disintegraion | Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn ____ on landward life. |
| Effigy | (n)an image/representation/crude figure representing a hated person | At first he was a silent _____ of sorrow; but then the lamentation rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch. |
| Discursive | (adj)moving from topic to topic w/o order. | The assembly shredded away and became a _______ and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight. |
| Decorous | (adj)grace/beauty/marked by propriety and good taste | Suddenly Piggy was a bubble with ________ excitement. |
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