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Lord of the Flies Vocabulary Ch.1 M. Cortines (Creepers (He was clambering…
Lord of the Flies Vocabulary Ch.1 M. Cortines
Creepers
He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.
Vines.
Matins
Morning prayer service.
“He’s always throwing a faint,”said Merridew. “He did in Gib.; and
Addis; and at matins over the precentor.”
Bastion
A fort of projected fortification.
There, where the island pe- tered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.
Strident
Loud or blaring .
The note boomed again: and then at his firmer pressure, the note, fluking up an octave, became a strident blare more penetrating than before.
Togs
Clothes or robes.
“All right, choir. Take off your togs.”
Suffusion
The spreading of a fluid.
The suffusion drained away from Jack’s face. Ralph waved again for silence.
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Pallidly
Pale.
Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon.
Specious
Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed.
False, but seems true.
Furtive
Secretive.
There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.
Hiatus
A break or pause.
There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm.
Swathing
Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mi- rages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.
Wrapped in layers.
Efflorescence
It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral.
Flowering or blooming.
Effulgence
With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening
weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.
Extreme brightness.
Pliant
Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.
Flexible.
Enmity
He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun’s enmity, crossed the
platform and found his scattered clothes.
Being against or hostile.
Proffer
The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon.
To make an offer.
Conch
A conch he called it.
A shell.
Immured
To enclose or confine.
Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.
Precentor
A person who leads a congregation in prayer.
“He’s always throwing a faint,”said Merridew. “He did in Gib.; and
Addis; and at matins over the precentor.”