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Lord of the Flies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| bastion | a fortress; a defender or supporter of certain ideas |
| trope | any literary device (e.g., a metaphor, simile, image, or symbol); a theme that keeps coming up |
| furtive | sneaky, secretive |
| pliant | easy to bend; easy to influence |
| bravado | a bold show of strength and self-confidence |
| rueful | expressing sadness or regret, often in a humorous way; to be sorry, and sheepish |
| dubious | doubtful or doubting, unreliable |
| sage | 1. (n) a wise person; 2. (adj) wise, knowing |
| acrid | bad or harsh smell or taste, usually bitter or sour |
| demure | shy and modest; pretending to be shy and modest in a flirty or joking way |
| myopic | unable to see far away; not thinking ahead to the future; intolerant, unimaginative, with a limited perspective |
| prim | formal, stiff and proper |
| corpulent | fat, obese |
| obscene | offensive or shocking to one's morals |
| officious | interfering in an annoying way that is not wanted; overly involved |
| preposterous | ridiculous, not to be believed |
| festooned | 1. (adj.) decorated (e.g., with ribbons and garlands), made festive; 2. (v.) (past tense) adorned (e.g., with ribbons and garlands) to make festive |
| chastise | to criticize harshly |
| diffident | reserved in manner, shy from lack of confidence |
| cascade | 1. (n.) a material flowing over a surface, water pouring over rocks; 2 (v.) to flow or fall in a large amount |
| ebullient | bubbly, cheerful |
| interminable | without end |
| tacit | understood without being openly discussed, unspoken |
| implication | a conclusion or result of a specific action (e.g., the implications of the bomb dropping on the city); a suggestion that is made without directly stating it; |
| indignity | an insult or injury to someone's self-respect |
| subdue | to bring someone or something under control, esp. by force |
| decorous | decent, well-mannered, polite |
| truculent | aggressive, quick to fight; harsh |
| surmount | to overcome something difficult; to stand on top of |
| indignation | anger or annoyance that is caused by something that seems wrong or unfair |
| specious | deceptive, not genuine, appearing possible but actually being wrong |
| cessation | an end (of some action) |
| contemptuously | in a way that shows disgust or hate |
| chasm | a huge difference or gap, esp. between people's points of view; a deep opening in the earth or rocks |
| torrid | very hot and dry; passionate, intense |
| deride | to ridicule, make fun of or put down, insult |
| enmity | hatred or hostility |
| pallid | pale, usually due to poor health; uninteresting and weak |
| rebuke | 1. (v.) to scold or harshly criticize someone; 2. (n.) a scolding or harsh criticism of what someone did |
| obtuse | stupid or dumb, unable to think clearly or to understand simple things; (math) an angle between 90 and 180 degrees |
| brine | 1. (n.) salty water; 2. (v.) to soak something in salty water |
| indignant | feeling angry about something that seems unfair |
| pelt | 1. (v.) to attack by hurling objects; to fall quickly and heavily against something else (e.g., rain pelted the ground); to run quickly; 2. (n.) an animal skin with fur or hair still attached to it |
| defile | to destroy something or make something dirty, esp. something believed to be sacred or pure (e.g., they defiled the flag) |
| hiatus | a pause or break in an activity (or series or process) |
| inscrutable | incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or understood |
| contrite | feeling and expressing a sense of guilt, sorry |
| strident | loud and harsh; expressing an opinion in an overly forceful, unpleasant way |
| myriad | countless or large in number |
| tremulous | shaking slightly, fearful, or nervous |
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