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Lord of Flies Vocab
Chapters 1-4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Clambering | To climb using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty. |
| Proffer | To put before a person for acceptance; offer. |
| Efflorescence | The state or a period of flowering. |
| Efflugence | A brilliant radiance; a shining forth. |
| Enmity | A feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill will; animosity; antagonism. |
| Decorous | Characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character. etc. |
| Fulcrum | The support or point of rest on which a lever turns moving a body. |
| Furtive | Taken, done, used, etc; surreptitiously or by stealth; secret. |
| Indignation | Strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting or base; righteous anger. |
| Bastion | A fortified place. |
| Hiatus | A break or interruption in the continuity of a work series, action, etc. |
| Gesticulated | To make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech. |
| Clamored | A loud uproar as from a crowd of people. |
| Ebullience | high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance. |
| Assented | To agree or concur; subscribe to. |
| Recrimination | A counter change. |
| Hayrick | Haystack. |
| Tumult | Violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar. |
| Tirade | A prolonged outburst of bitter, outspoken denunciation. |
| Festooned | A string or chain of flowers, foilage, ribbon, etc, suspended in curve between two points. |
| Tendril | a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form which attaches itself to or twines round some other body so as to support the plant. |
| Pendant | A handing ornament as an earring of the main piece suspended from a necklace. |
| Oppressive | burden some unjustly harsh or tyrannical groups |
| Inscrutable | Incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized, impenetrable; considered unjust, offensive, insulting, or base. |
| Vicissitudes | A change or variation occurring in the course of something. |
| Antagonism | An active hostility or opposition as between unfriendly or conflicting. |
| Indignant | Feeling, characterized by, or expressing strong displeasure at something. |
| Declivities | A downward slope, as of ground. |
| Tacit | Understood without being openly expressed; implied. |
| Susurration | A soft murmur; whisper. |
| Whelming | To submerge; engulf. |
| Blatant | Brazenly obvious flagrant. |
| Impalpable | Difficult for the mind to grasp readily or easily. |
| Taboo | Proscribed by society as improper or unacceptable. |
| Swarthiness | Dark. |
| Sinewy | Having strong sinews. |
| Malevolently | Wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill- disposed; malicious. |
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