Lord Of The Flies 7-9 Flashcards
Crestfallen
Feeling shame or humiliation
“I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, crestfallen, “so this must be the bit of the coast I missed.”
Ralph nodded.”
Coverts
Underbrush providing cover for game
“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.”
Glowered
Looked with annoyance or anger
“Jack—that time you went the whole way to the castle rock.”
Jack glowered.
“Yes?”
Daunting
Discouraging; Dismaying
Impervious
Incapable of being affected
“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.”
Prefect
Chief officer; monitor In Private school
“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. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk—”
Rebuke
Reprimand; criticize; reprove
“Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph. He polished his glass again and went back to his subject.”
Demure
Modest; reserved
“Hunting,” he said. 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.”
Fervor
Emotional intensity; passion
“If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it.
“And another thing. We shan’t dream so much down here. This is near the end of the island.”
They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented private lives.”
Demented
Mad and insane
“The drove of pigs started up; and at a range of only ten yards the wooden spears with fire-hardened points flew toward the chosen pig. One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger’s spear behind it.”
Palled
Lost its attraction
“At length even this palled. Jack began to clean his bloody hands on the rock. Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him. He talked as he worked.”
Corpulent
Obese; excessively fat
“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
Derision
Contemptuous laughter
“Immediately, Ralph and the crowd of boys were united and relieved by a storm of laughter. Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
Sauntered
Walked at a leisurely place
“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.”
Abominable
Detestable; unpleasant
“It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water.”
