Chapter 7-9

Question 0

Crestfallen

Answer 0

• “I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed”
• dejected; dispirited; discouraged.
• When he realized he lost the contest, he became crestfallen.

Question 1

Coverts

Answer 1

• If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.
• a thicket giving shelter to wild animals or game.
• The deer ran into the covert and I lost track of it.

Question 2

Glowered

Answer 2

• Jack glowered.
• to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
• I glowered at her as she walked by.

Question 3

Daunting

Answer 3

• The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.
• to overcome with fear; intimidate
• I’m afraid this task can be very daunting for new participants.

Question 4

Impervious

Answer 4

-So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming;
round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain
punched up a hole of blackness.
-not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable
-The poncho was virtually impervious to the rain.

Question 5

Prefect

Answer 5

• He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him.
• a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department of France or Italy.
• I visited the prefect in France on my trip there.

Question 6

Rebuke

Answer 6

• Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.
• to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.
• The men were rebuked simply because they were of a different race.

Question 7

Demure

Answer 7

-Each of them wore the remains
of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their
voices had been the song of angels
-characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
-The new girl sat with such a demure personality that Suzy went to hang out with her.

Question 8

Fervor

Answer 8

• If Jack was astonished by their fervour he did not show it
• great warmth and earnestness of feeling
• His mother treated her son with great fervour that really expressed her affection.

Question 9

Demented

Answer 9

• One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.
• crazy; insane; mad.
• Mr. Barkowitz suffered from a rare disease that made him act strangely and demented.

Question 10

Palled

Answer 10

• At length even this palled.
• to have a wearying or tiresome effect
• His curses palled in comparison to Caliban’s.

Question 11

Corpulent

Answer 11

• Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.
• large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.
• The farmer bred a calf and when it was born, it was very corpulent.

Question 12

Derision

Answer 12

• Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.
• ridicule; mockery
• Jacob’s coment remained the center of derision for the rest of the day.

Question 13

Sauntered

Answer 13

• Seeing there was no immediate likelihood of a pause, Jack rose from the log that was his throne and sauntered to the edge of the grass.
• to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll:
• We sauntered around the park with no final destination.

Question 14

Abominable

Answer 14

• It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.
• repugnantly hateful; detestable; loathsome:
• He got such a repugnant and abominable score on that the test, that it was unbelievable.