LOTF Vocabulary

1. LOTF Vocabulary

2. scar (pg.7) Book Sentence: “All around him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.” Guess the definition: Definition: a precipitous, rocky place; cliff Original Sentence:

3. specious (pg.12) Book Sentence: “Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool…” Guess the definition: Definition: pleasing to the eye but deceptive Original Sentence:

4. effulgence (pg. 14) Book Sentence: “…the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.” Guess the definition: Definition: a brilliant radiance Original Sentence:

5. enmity (pg.14) Book Sentence: “He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun’s enmity...” Guess the definition: Definition: a feeling or condition of hostility; hatred; ill-will; animosity Original Sentence:

6. fulcrum (pg. 16) Book Sentence: “Ralph used one hand as a fulcrum and pressed down with the other till the shell rose...” Guess the definition: Definition: the point or support on which a lever pivots Original Sentence:

7. immured (pg.27) Book Sentence: “Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.” Guess the definition: Definition: to imprison; to enclose within walls Original Sentence:

8. bastion (pg.29) Book Sentence: “There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing across the green with one bold, pink bastion.” Guess the definition: Definition: a precipitous, rocky place; cliff Original Sentence:

9. ebullience (pg.38) Book Sentence: “…with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children…” Guess the definition: Definition: high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance Original Sentence:

10. inscrutable (pg.49) Book Sentence: “Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.” Guess the definition: Definition: incapable of being seen through physically; physically impenetrable Original Sentence:

11. vicissitude (pg.49) Book Sentence: ”Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.” Guess the definition: Definition: regular change or succession of one state or thing to another Original Sentence:

12. declivity (pg.54) Book Sentence: ”But Jack was pointing to the high declivities that led down from the mountain to the flatter part of the island.” Guess the definition: Definition: a downward slope Original Sentence:

13. susurration (pg.57) Book Sentence: “The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.” Guess the definition: Definition: a soft murmur; whisper Original Sentence:

14. detritus (pg.61) Book Sentence: “…bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of land-ward life.” Guess the definition: Definition: any disintegrated material; debris Original Sentence:

15. myriad (pg.61) Book Sentence: “Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach.” Guess the definition: Definition: a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things Original Sentence:

16. tacitly (pg.65) Book Sentence: “There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider…” Guess the definition: Definition: implied; unspoken Original Sentence:

17. impervious (pg. 121) Book sentence: “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.” Guess the definition: Definition: adj. impenetrable; unable to affect Original Sentence:

18. contemptuously (pg. 124) Book sentence: “Go up and see,” said Jack contemptuously, “and good riddance.” Guess the definition: Definition: adv. with scorn or disregard for the law or authority Original Sentence:

19. covert (pg. 135) Book sentence: “They surrounded the covert but the sow only got away with the sting of another spear in her flank.” Guess the definition: Definition: noun a covering or shelter; a place of concealment Original Sentence:

20. barmy (pg. 165) Book sentence: “I mean it,” whispered Piggy, “if we don’t get home soon we’ll be barmy.” Guess the definition: Definition: adj. flighty; empty-headed Original Sentence:

21. myopia (pg. 169) Book sentence: The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia. Guess the definition: Definition: noun; inability to see distant objects clearly Original Sentence:

22. propitiatingly (pg. 173) Book sentence: “I hadn’t,” said Ralph loudly. “I knew it all the time. I hadn’t forgotten.” Piggy nodded propitiatingly. Guess the definition: Definition: adv. in a favorable manner Original Sentence:

23. ludicrous (pg. 176) Book sentence: With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea. Guess the definition: Definition: adj. ridiculous or absurd Original Sentence:

24. derisive (pg.176) Book Sentence: “The sniggering of the savages became a loud derisive jeer.” Guess the definition: Definition: in a mocking manner Original Sentence:

25. pax (pg. 186) Book sentence: “Might it not be possible to walk boldly into the fort, say– ‘I’ve got pax,’ laugh lightly, and sleep among the others?” Guess the definition: Definition: noun peace Original Sentence:

26. acrid (pg. 186) Book sentence: “He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the acrid scent of salt and sweat and the staleness of dirt.” Guess the definition: Definition: adj. bitter, hot, stinging to the senses. Original Sentence:

27. antiphonal (pg. 188) Book sentence: “Eric took up; and the twins started their antiphonal speech.” Guess the definition: Definition: adj. sung alternately Original Sentence:

28. ululation (pg. 189) Book sentence: “Eric raised his head and achieved a faint ululation by beating on his open mouth.” Guess the definition: Definition: noun a howl or wail; a cry of mourning Original Sentence:

29. goad (pg. 186) Book sentence: “He could not bring himself to be specific at first; but then fear and loneliness goaded him.” Guess the definition: Definition: verb to instigate or impel by some form of mental annoyance; to drive by continued irritation Original Sentence:

30. ensconce (pg. 191) Book sentence: “At first light he would creep into the thicket, squeeze between the twisted stems, ensconce himself so deeply that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed.” Guess the definition: Definition: verb to shelter within or behind a fortification Original Sentence:

31. cordon (pg. 191) Book sentence: “Then he would sit and the search would pass him by, and the cordon waver on, ululating along the island, and he would be free.” Guess the definition: Definition: noun a line of troops composed of men placed at detached intervals to prevent passage to or from a guarded area Original Sentence:

32. crepitation (pg. 194) Book sentence: “He heard a curious trickling sound and then a louder crepitation as if someone were unwrapping great sheets of cellophane.” Guess the definition: Definition: noun a crackling noise Original Sentence: