Lord of the Flies Test

ralph

mc, leader of the group

piggy

intelligence of group, hated by others

jack

leader of hunters/choir, dislikes ralph

simon

helps ralph build shelters, one of the older kids

sam and eric

twins, saw beast on mountain

piggy’s glasses

symbol of piggy/intelligence being discarded, ignored

“beast” in chapter six

man falling from the sky with a parachute, seen by sam and eric at fire

percival

said he saw the beast in the water, little boy

maurice

hunter, older boy

specious

1. Adjective

2. Having a misleading appearance

3. “Ralph had been deceived before now by the ———- appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

effulgence

1. Noun

2. Being bright, sending out rays of light

“With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding ————-” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

enmity

1. Noun

2. Being hostile or opposed  to something

“He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun’s ———, crossed the platform, and found his scattered clothes” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

decorous

1. Adjective

2. Polite, restrained, keeping with good propriety

“Suddenly Piggy was a-bubble with ———- excitement” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

indignation

1. Noun

2. Anger or annoyance due what is considered to be unfair

“Piggy stood and the rose of ————- faded slowly from his cheeks” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

hiatus

1. Noun

2.  A pause/gap in a process, sequence, or series

3. “There came a pause, a ———, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

ebullience

1. Noun

2. Being cheerful and full of energy

“Then, with a martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ———— of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

recrimination

1. Noun

2. Accusation in response to one from someone else 

“His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous ———-” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

tumult

1. Noun

2. Confusion or disorder

“He paused in the ————, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the munition to the great patch where they had found dead wood” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

furtive

1. Adjective

2. Attempting to avoid attention/notice due to guiltiness or the attempted aversion of trouble

“Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a moment became less of a hunter than a ———— thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

inscrutable

1. Adjective

2. Impossible to interpret or understand

“Jack lifted his head and stared at the ———- masses of creeper that lay across the trail” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

incredulous

1. Adjective

2. Unwilling or unable to believe something

“They were silent again; Simon intent, Ralph ———- and faintly indignant” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

belligerence

1. Noun

2. Aggressive or warlike behavior 

“Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural ————-” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

chastisement

1. Noun

2. Severe criticism or punishment 

“In his other life Maurice had received ———— for filling a younger eye with sand” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

incursion

1. Noun

2. A sudden or brief invasion or attack

“Perhaps good has appeared where at the last ———- there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

disinclination

1. Noun

2. Reluctance or lack of enthusiasm

“There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain ———— for manual labor” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

derisive

1. Adjective

2. Expressing contempt or ridicule

“The ———- laughter that rose had fear in it and condemnation” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

discursive

1. Adjective

2. Moving from subject to subject

“The assembly shredded away and became a ———- and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

incantation

1. Noun

2. Words said for a magical spell or charm

“Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the ———- of his address was powerless to help him” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

interminable

1. Adjective 

2. Hyperbolically endless

“An ———— dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

tremulously

1. adverb

2. Shaking or quivering slightly 

“The twins, holding ——— to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

leviathan

1. Noun

2. A very large sea creature 

“Then the sleeping ———- breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

decorum

1. Noun

2. Behavior in keeping with propriety or good taste  

“Not one of them was an obvious subject for a shower, and yet—hair, much too long, tangled her and there, knotted round  dead leaf or a twig; faces cleaned fairly well by the process of eating and sweating but marked on the less accessible angles with a kind of shadow; clothes, worn away, stuff like his own sweat, put on, not for ——— or comfort but out of custom; the skin of the body, scurfy with brine—” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

apprehension

1. Noun

2. anxiety or fear that something bad will happen

“Ralph was full of fright and ——— and pride” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

sagely

1. Adverb

2. In a very wise manner 

“Everybody agreed, ——-” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

antagonism

1. Noun

2. Active opposition or hostility 

“Ralph sighed, sensing the rising ———-, understanding that this was how Jack felt as soon as he ceased to lead” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

impervious

1. Adjective 

2. Unable to be affected by  

“So they sat, the rocking, tapping, ———- Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

bravado

1. Noun

2. A show of boldness to impress or intimidate 

“Ralph surprised himself, not so much by the quality of his voice, which was even, but by the ———— of its intention” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

contemptuously

1. adverb 

2. Scornful, showing contempt 

“‘Go up and see,’ said Jack —————, ‘and good riddance’” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

cynicism

1. Noun

2. the belief that people are motivated only by self interest 

“The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite ——— of adult life” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

indignity

1. Noun

2. circumstances or treatment that causes one to lose their dignity or feel shame

“He opened his eyes quickly and there was the head grinning amusedly in the strange daylight, ignoring the flies, the spilled guts, even ignoring the ———- of being spiked on a stick” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

iridescent

1. adjective 

2. displaying luminescent colors that appear to change when viewed from different angles 

“They were black and ———- green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

corpulent

1. Adjective

2. Fat

“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the ———- figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

parody

1. noun

2. An imitation of something, usually to be funny

“The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this ———; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

succulent

1. adjective

2. Tender, tasty, juicy

“The boys with the spit gave Ralph and Piggy each a ———- chunk”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

gesticulating

1. verb

2. Using dramatic gestures to emphasize speech

“He was ————-, searching for a formula”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

stricken

1. adjective

2. Heavily affected by an unpleasant condition or feeling

“Ralph’s voice, low and ———-, stopped Piggy’s gestures”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

convulsively

1. adverb

2. Causing strong, repeated, uncontrolled muscle movements

“Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys ————”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

torrid

1. adjective

2. Very dry and hot

“Sitting on the tremendous rock in the ——— sun, Roger received this news as an illumination”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

luminous

1. adjective

2. Softly radiant or bright

“The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the ——— wall of his myopia” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

myopia

1. noun

2. nearsightedness

“The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his ———” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

propitiatingly

1. adverb

2. To appease or conciliate 

“Piggy nodded ———-” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

truculently

1. adverb

2. Quick or eager to fight or argue

“———- they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

inimical

1. adjective

2. Unfriendly, hostile, tending to obstruct

“To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and ——— creatures from their feasting by the fire” (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

ululation

1. verb

2. To howl or wail as an expression of strong emotion, usually grief

“Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ———- by beating on his open mouth”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).

crepitation

1. noun

2. A crackling or rattling sound

3. “He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder ———- as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane”  (Golding, William, Lord of the Flies).