Lor of the Flies Vocab
Terms
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- recrimination
- a bitter retort; a charge against an accuser
- impalpable
- incapable of being felt by touch; intaginable
- derisive
- expressingor causing scorn or ridicule
- motif
- a single repeated design or color
- impervious
- not allowing enterance or passage; impenetrable; not capapble of being affected or disturbed
- specious
- having deceptive attraction or allure
- mirages
- optical effects appearing as a pool of water or a mirror in which distant objects seem averted.
- brandishing
- shaking or waving threatingly
- baffled
- defeated by confusion or puzzlment; frustration
- preposterous
- contrary to nature, reason, or common sense
- ludicrous
- amusing or laughable throuh obvious absurity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity
- diffidently
- shyly, reservedly, unassertevily
- discursive
- moving from one topic to another
- effigy
- an image or representation, especially of a person
- mooning
- dreaming; spending time in idle reverie
- loathing
- extreme disgust; dtestation
- ebullience
- the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of ones thoughts or feelings; exuberance
- truculently
- belligerently; self assertively aggresive
- errant
- straying outside the proper path or bounds
- officious
- volunteering ones service where they are neither asked for or needed; meddlesome
- bastion
- a projecting part of fortification; something considered a stronghold; a fortified area or position
- strident
- character by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound
- sough
- a moaning or sighing sound
- daunting
- dismaying, intimidating
- vicissitudes
- fluctations of states or conditions; natural changes or mutations visibly in nature or in humans affairs
- incredulous
- disbelieving; skeptical
- inarticulate
- uttered or formed without the definite, clear, effective, utterances of intelligible speech
- abyss
- an immeasurably deep gulf or great space
- expansively
- with delusion of self importance; increasingly; with enlargment
- inscrutable
- not readily interpreted; mysterious; hard to grasp
- furtive
- expressive of stealth; sly; secretive
- ululation
- a howl; a wail
- succulent
- full of juice; juicy
- demented
- mad; insane
- Addis (addis ababa)
- the largest city of Ethipia in Africa
- theological
- of or relating to the study of god and his relation to the world, especially by analysis of the origins and teachings of an organized religous community
- jeeringly
- mockingly, tauntingly
- somberly
- seriously, gravely
- interminable
- having or seeming to have no end; prolonged
- blatent
- completely obvious, conspicuous, or obtrusive
- iridescent
- having or exhibiting a play of colors prodicing rainbow effects, also glittering
- s******s (snickers)
- abpartly suppressed laugh; twitters
- abominable
- worthy of or causing disgust or hatred; quite disagreeable or unpleasant; detestable
- conviction
- a strong persuasion or belief; the stae of being convinced; certainty
- enmity
- hatred; ill will
- incantation
- a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particualr effect
- demure
- reserved; modest
- eccentric
- deviating from usal, established pattern or from accepted usage or conduct
- exulting
- rejoicing
- contrite
- expressing remorse for ones sins or shortcomings
- obstuness
- dullness; slowness to apprehend or recieve
- windward
- the direction the wind is blowing from
- inmical
- unfriendly; hostile
- precentor
- a leader of a singin or choir of congregation
- opalscence
- a reflection of iridescent light, which exhibits a play of colors, producing a rainbow effect.
- purged
- cleansed of; freed from moral or ceremonial defilement
- obscurely
- indistinctly; without full understanding or expression
- corpulent
- having large bulky body; obese
- swarthiness
- darkness of complexion
- multitudinous
- including many indiduals; existing in great numbers
- myopia
- a type of defective vision in which distant objects appeared blurred
- opaque
- hard to understand or explain; intelligible
- gibralter
- a town or port on the rock of gibralter, a british colony on the south coast of spain
- taboo
- banned on grounds of mortality or taste
- mutinously
- rebelliously
- contemptuosly
- disrespectfully; disdainfully
- gesticulated
- made gestures; used the motions of the body or kimbs to express or emphasize an idea, sentiment, or attitude
- tremulously
- tremblingly; fearfully
- tactitly
- expressed or carried out without words; silently
- incursion
- a hostile enterance into a territory; a raid
- rugby ball
- Similar in shape to a football, but rounder and le pointed.
- myriad
- an immense number; from the greek, ten thousand
- perilous
- hazardous, dangerous
- sacity
- the quality or state of being holy or sacred
- tailsman
- something producing magical or miraculous effetects
- tempestuosly
- violently, agitatedly
- consrtainedly
- with an unnatural manner
- susurration
- a whispering sound; a murmer
- typhoon
- a tropical cyclone
- castanet
- a rhythm intrument that consists of two small shells or ivory
- pall
- something that covers or conceals, especailly an overspreading element that produces the effect of gloom.
- malevolently
- viciously, spitefully, hatefully
- excruciatingly
- painfully; agonizingly
- improvisation
- the art or act of making, inventing, or arranging off hand, without advanced planning.
- mortification
- a sense of humiliation and shame cause by something that wounds ones pride or self respect
- leeward
- the direction the wind is blowing toward
- incredulity
- the state or quality of disbelief
- exasperation
- the state of being irritated or annoyed
- parody
- a feeble or ridiculous imitation