Chapters 7-9 Flashcards
(15 cards)
Crestfallen
“I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
My definition: sadly or remembering something bad that happened there.
Dictionary: feeling shame or humiliation
My sentence: she looked at her old house, looking crestfallen and walked away.
Coverts
“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.”
My definition: something to hide under
Dictionary: underbrush providing cover for game
My sentences: She hide under the coverts for safety.
Glowered
“Jack–that time you went the whole way to the castle rock.”
Jack glowered.
“Yes?”
My definiton: with hatred or saying it in a mean way.
Dictionary: looked with annoyance or anger
My sentence: Remember when u fell off the swing. “yes” she responded looking glowered.
Daunting
“The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated.”
My definition: to mean to say again.
Dictionary: discouraging; dismaying
My sentence: her speech was very daunting towards most of the boys.
Impervious
“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.”
My definition: not caring
Dictionary: incapable of being affected
My sentence: I told her the meanest things and she was still impervious.
Prefect
“He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t a prefect and we don’t know anything about him.”
My definition: a leader or some one u can’t be friends with
Dictionary: chief officer; monitor in private school
My sentence: The person talking to my mom was a prefect.
Rebuke
“Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph. He polished his glass again and went back to his subject.”
My definition: Judge or try to prove him wrong
Dictionary: reprimand; criticize; reprove
My sentence: She was trying to rebuke me no matter how right I was.
Demure
“He sized them up. 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.”
My definition: ordered and neat
Dictionary: modest; reserved
My sentence: He made us stand in two demurred lines until he came back.
Fervor
“If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.”
My definition: passion he has over it.
Dictionary:emotional intensity; passion
My sentence: She had a very fervor feeling for him.
Demented
“One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”
My definition: crazy
Dictionary: mad; insane
My sentence: His actions made him sund dememnted.
Palled
“At length even this palled. Jack began to clean his bloody hands on the rock.”
My definition: distasteful
Dictionary: lost its attraction
My sentence: He was palled when it came to picking colors.
Corpulent
“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
My definition: fat
Dictionary: obese; excessively fat
My sentence: The lady was corpulent and feel from the escalator.
Derision
“Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
My definition: laughing
Dictionary: contemptuous laughter; ridicule
My sentence: The little bot was the social derision because of his nerdy life style.
Sauntered
“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. He looked down from behind his paint at Ralph and Piggy.”
My definition: thinking he is the best of the best.
Dictionary: walked at a leisurely pace
My sentence: he sauntered on the way to the office.
abominable
“It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.”
My definition: annoying
Dictionary: detestable; unpleasant
My sentence: The abominable screeching form the board hurt my ears.
