Lord of the Flies Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Apex | The highest point |
Assimilating | Absorbing |
Bastion | A well-fortified position |
Coverts | Thick underbrush providing cover |
Crepitation | Crackling sound |
Cynicism | Attitude scornful of the motives or virtues of others |
Declivities | Downward sloped |
Derision | Scorn or ridicule |
Derisive | Scornful |
Ebullience | Zestful enthusiasm |
Eclipsed | Obscured; blocked from view |
Effigy | A likeness or image |
Elephantine | Ponderously clumsy |
Excruciatingly | Intensely painful |
Festooned | Decorated |
Gesticulated | Made hand motions |
Glamour | Magic spell; enchantment |
Hiatus | Break |
Impalpable | Intangible; not perceived by touch |
Impervious | Incapable of being affected |
Improvisation | To invent without preparation |
Incantation | A verbal charm or spell |
Incredulity | Disbelief |
Inimical | Unfriendly; hostile |
Inscrutable | Impenetrable |
Luxuriance | Having rich or profuse growth |
Maternal | Relating to motherhood |
Myopia | A visual defect like nearsightedness |
Obtuseness | Dullness; flatness; lack of sharp edges |
Opaque | Light can't get through it |
Pall | A gloomy effect |
Pinnacles | Tall, pointed formations |
Propitiatingly | Appeasingly; trying to please |
Purged | Freed from impurities |
Rebuke | To criticize or reprimand |
Sanctity | Sacredness; godliness |
Sinewy | Lean and muscular |
Skewed | Turned to one side |
Specious | Plausible but actually false |
Tacitly | Without being spoken |
Taut | Tight |
Tempestuously | Like a storm; turbulently |
Truculently | Disposed to fight |
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