Lord of the Flies ch3 and ch4 vocab

Vocabulary flashcards for Lord of the Flies chapter 3 and chapter 4

Festoon (V)

Hung like decorations (eg. The tree trunks and creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him , and all about was the undergrowth)

Tendril (N)

Spiraled stem used for attachment (eg. Here was a loop of a creeper with a tendril pendant from a node)

Pendant (N)

Something suspended; hanging (eg. Here was a loop of a creeper with a tendril pendant from a node)

Oppressive (Adj)

Depressing; overwhelming (eg. The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat…)

Gaudy (Adj)

Extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless (eg. Only when Jack roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered…)

Pallor (N)

An unhealthy pale appearance (eg. and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face…)

Inscrutable (N)

Not easily understood; mysterious (eg. Jack raised his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.)

Vicissitudes (N)

Natural or unexpected changes (eg. Jack stood there steaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting)

Incredulous (Adj)

(of a person or their manner) Unwilling or unable to believe something (eg. They were silent again: Simon was intent, and Ralph incredulous and faintly indignant)

Opaque (Adj)

Not able to be seen through; not transparent (eg. The opaque mad look came into his eyes again)

Tacit (N)

Unspoken; implied- murmur; whispering sound (eg. 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)

Blatant (Adj)

Obvious in an offensive manner (eg. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky…)

Belligerence (N)

Aggressive or warlike behavior (eg. Johnny was well built with fair hard and a natural belligerence)

Impalpable (Adj)

Incapable of being felt by touch (eg. With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field)

Myriad (Adj)

A countless or extremely great number (eg. Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach)

Taboo (N/Adj)

Banned by morality or taste (eg. Yet there was a space around Henry…into which he did not dare throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the invisible taboo of the old life)

Swarthiness (N)

Of dark color or complexion (eg. When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing)

Sinewy (Adj)

Strong; lean and muscular (eg. Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them)

Malevolently (Adv)

In a manner of vicious hatred (eg. Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack)