Lord of The Flies- VOCAB

Question 1

furtive:

Answer 1

• secretive; attempting to avoid notice
• Roger “a slight, furtive boy… with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy

Question 2

vicissitudes:

Answer 2

• a change in luck or fortune, usually for the worst
• “Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.”

Question 3

derision:

Answer 3

• scorn, disdain
• “Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”

Question 4

inimical:

Answer 4

• unfriendly
• Ralph to Samneric “To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures from their feasting by the fire.”

Question 5

despotic:

Answer 5

• having unlimited power over other people, and often using it unfairly and cruelly
• Jack over the hunters

Question 6

ebullience:

Answer 6

• eager enjoyment or approval
• Piggy “Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.”

Question 7

robinsonade:

Answer 7

a fictitious narrative of often fantastic adventures in real or imaginary distant places

Question 8

tyranny:

Answer 8

• cruel and oppressive government or rule
• Jack is the tyrant

Question 9

anarchy:

Answer 9

absence of a government

Question 10

coerce:

Answer 10

persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using force or threats.

Question 11

ostracise:

Answer 11

• exclude from a society or group
• Ralph is excluded at the end

Question 12

sadistic:

Answer 12

a sadistic person obtains pleasure from hurting other people and making them suffer physically or mentally