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Lord of the Flies
Vocabulary chapter 1-4
| wacco | excellent |
| wizard | excellent |
| motif | a dominant idea or central theme |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hated or ill will |
| specious | having deceptive attraction or allure; showy |
| furtive | done by stealth |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent and discordant sound |
| eccentric | deviating from an established or usual pattern or style |
| mortification | subjection and denial of bodily passions and appetites by abstinence |
| indignation | anger aroused by somethings unjust, unworthy, or mean |
| pliant | pliable, easily influenced; yielding, suitable for varied uses |
| pallor | deficiency of color esp. of the face: paleness |
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| hiatus | an interruption in time or continuity |
| contemptuously | manifesting, feeling, or expressing contempt |
| gesticulated | use dramatic gestures instead of speaking |
| compelled | forced or oblige to do domething |
| errant | erring or straying from the proper course or standards |
| martyred | a person who is killed or suffers for a religion, cause, and etc. |
| ebullience | the qualify of lively or enthusiastic expression of though and feeling |
| mime | a performance done without speaking |
| recrimination | an angry statement in which you accuse |
| tumult | a state of noisy confusion or disorder |
| batty | crazy |
| cracker | crazy |
| inscrutable | difficult to understand |
| seductive | making someone do or want something; sexually attractive |
| vicissitudes | the quality or state of being changeable; alternating change |
| compulsion | the sate of being forced to do something |
| opaque | not letting light though; difficult to understand or explained |
| declivities | moderately steep |
| rapt | showing complete interest in something |
| tacit | expressed or understand without being directly stated |
| perceptible | able to be seen or notice; able to be perceived |
| riotous | behaving in a violent and uncontrolled |
| dazzle paint | British term for camouflage; used to disguise troops, ships and guns |
| bloody | cursed; damned |
| one for his nob | a hit on his head |
| give him a fourpenny one | hit him on the jaw |
| blatant | very obvious and offensive |
| belligerence | an aggressive or truculent attitude, atmosphere, or disposition |
| chastisement | to criticize harshly for doing something wrong |
| impalpable | incapable of being felt by touch |
| myriad | a very large number of things |
| appalled | to cause to feel fear; shock, or disgust |
| malevolent | having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person |
| ravenous | very hungry |
| Scare | a bare rocky place on a mountainside or other steep slope; or a protruding isolated rock |
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llin1415
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