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LotF Chs. 2 and 3
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| gesticulated | gestured with one's hands "He gesticulated widely." |
| errant | disobedient "The noise of the errant assembly faded up the mountain." |
| ebullience | liveliness "Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch..." |
| officious | too eager to serve or advise "There was pushing and pulling and officious cries." |
| indignantly | angrily, crossly "I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. "You let me speak!" |
| 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. "Sorry." |
| opaque | light can't pass through "The opaque, mad look came into his [Jack's] eyes again.” |
| declivities | descending slopes "But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island." |
| tacit | unstated "Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool." |
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