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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| proffer | offer "The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but his proffer of acquaintance was not made.” |
| enmity | ill-will "He [Ralph] trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes.” |
| strident | harsh and loud "The note boomed again; and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.” |
| indredulous | unbelieving: skeptical "They [Sam and Eric] were twins, and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication." |
| furtive | sly, devious "There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy." |
| gesticulated | gestured with one's hands "He gesticulated widely.” |
| clambering | climbing, scrambling "Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar.” |
| officious | too eager to serve or advise "There was pushing and pulling and officious cries." |
| avidly | eagerly, with passion "Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly." |
| inscrutable | not easily understood "Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail." |
| vicissitudes | difficulties or hardships "Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting.” |
| contrite | sincerely sorry for shortcomings "Simon's contrite face appeared in the hole.” |
| rapt | completely absorbed "Ralph gazed bewildered at his [Jack's] rapt face.” |
| blatant | noisy; clamorous "Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility..." |
| generic | without distinction; in general "The smaller boys were know no by the generic title of 'littlun.'" |
| chastisement | punishment "In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand." |
| myriad | innumerable "Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies (baby crabs) came scavenging over the beach." |
| malevolently | with hostility "Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack.” |
| jeeringly | mockingly "...remembering that first enthusiastic exploration as though it were part of a brighter childhood, he smiled jeeringly." |
| effigly | representation "At first he was a silent effigy of sorrow; but then the lamentation rose out of him.” |
| interminable | seemingly without end "An interminable dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and gray, filtered into the shelter." |
| brandishing | waving about in a threatening manner "Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife." |
| sagely | wisely "Everybody agreed [with Ralph] sagely.” |
| sanctity | holiness; inviolability "The wood he fetched was close at hand, a fallen tree on the platform that they did not need for the assembly, yet to the others the sanctity of the platform had protected even what was useless there.” |
| demure | modest "Each of them [Jack & Roger] wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.” |
| fervor | intensity "If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.” |
| demented | insane "Piggy and Ralph under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society." |
| ensconce | conceal "At first the twisted stems, ensconce himself so deep that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed." |
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