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Lord Flies Vocab3
Lord of the Flies vocab for quiz 3 over chapters 5 and 6
Question | Answer |
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Improvisation? | To make, invent, or arrange offhand |
Jeeringly? | To speak or cry out with derision or mockery |
Lamentably? | Expressing grief |
Ludicrous? | Meriting derisive laughter or scorn as absurdly inept, false, or foolish |
Expansively? | Marked by or indicative of exaggerated euphoria and delusions of self importance |
Effigy? | An image or representation especially of a person |
Sough? | To make a moaning or sighing sound |
Perilous? | Full of or involving peril |
Tempestuously? | Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest |
Discursive? | Moving from topic to topic without order |
Inarticulate? | Incapable of speech especially under stress |
Incantation? | A use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic |
Interminable? | Having or seeming to have no end |
Tremulously? | Affected with timidity |
Exasperation? | Having or showing strong feelings of irritation or annoyance |
Incredulity? | Unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true |
Diffidently? | Hesitant in acting through lack of self-confidence |
Constrainedly? | To force by imposed stricture, restriction, or limitation |
Leviathan? | A large sea animal |
Plinth? | A course of stones forming a continuous foundation of base course |
Guano? | A fertilizer containing the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats |
Exulting? | To be extremely joyful |
Somberly? | Of a dismal or depressing character |
Mutinously? | Forcible or passive resistance to authority |