lord of the flies vocab

Antagonism - open hostility or opposition

Apex - uppermost point

Assented - thoughtfully agreed; concurred

Bastion - projecting part of a fortification 

Clamored - shouted noisily and insistently

Clambering - climbing awkwardly

Coverts - underbrush providing cover for game

Crestfallen - feeling shame or humiliation

Decorous - decent; correct; fitting

Declivities - descending slopes

Derisive - mocking; jeering

Demented - mad; insane

Demure - modest ; reserved

Diffident(ly)- shy; timid; reserved

Daunting - discouraging; dismaying

Ebullience - lively or enthusiastic and insistently

Efflorescence - blossoming; flowering

Effigy - a crude representation of a person

Effulgence - brilliance; radiant splendor

Festooned - hung like decorations

Fulcrum - support on which a lever pivots

Fervor - emotional intensity; passion

Furtive - sly; surreptitious; underhanded

Gesticulated - made gestures when speaking to show strong feelings

Glowered - looked with annoyance or anger

Hayrick - haystack

Hiatus - break; gap; pause

Impervious - incapable of being affected

Inarticulate - unable to speak clearly

Indignation - anger due to unjust treatment

Ineffectual - useless; ineffective

Inscrutable - not easily understood; mysterious

Jeer - to mock or taunt

Lamentably - mournfully; regrettably

Ludicrous - amusing or laughable; absurd

Leviathan - large sea creature

Mutinously - rebellious; unruly; turbulently

Oppressive - depressing; overwhelming 

Pendant - something suspended; hanging

Proffer - offer; suggestion

Prefect - chief officer; monitor in private school

Palled - lost in attraction

Recrimination - charged against an accuser

Rebuke - reprimand; criticize; reprove

Susurration - murmur; whispering sound

Tacit - unspoken; implied

Tremulous(ly) - trembling; quivering; shaking

Tendril - spiraled stem used attachment

Tumult - commotion; riot

Tirade - long, angry or violent speech

Vicissitudes - natural or unexpected changes

Corpulent - obese; excessively fat

Derision - contemptuous laughter; ridicule

Sauntered - walked at a leisurely pace

Abominable - detestable; unpleasant 

Assimilating - comprehending; taking in

Compelled - urged or drove forcefully

Luminous - emitting steady light

Myopia - nearsightedness

Sniveling- whining in weak manner

Propitiatingly - pacifying; appeasing 

Quavered - spoke in a trembling voice

Truculently - savagely; aggressively

Parried - warred off

Talisman - object thought to have magical powers

cynical(ly) - distrustful(ly) of human nature

Acrid - pungent or bitter odor of human nature

Cordon - a line of people enclosing an area

Ululating - howling; wailing

Elephantine - massive; clumsy; enormous

Crepitation - crackling sound

Epaulettes - fringed shoulder pad on a military uniform