LOTF Vocabulary

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; cliffOriginal Sentence:

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 deceptiveOriginal Sentence:

effulgence (pg. 14)

Book Sentence: “…the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.”Guess the definition:Definition: a brilliant radianceOriginal Sentence:

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; animosityOriginal Sentence:

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 pivotsOriginal Sentence:

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 wallsOriginal Sentence:

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; cliffOriginal Sentence:

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; exuberanceOriginal Sentence:

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 impenetrableOriginal Sentence:

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 anotherOriginal Sentence:

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 slopeOriginal Sentence:

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; whisperOriginal Sentence:

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; debrisOriginal Sentence:

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 thingsOriginal Sentence:

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; unspokenOriginal Sentence:

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 affectOriginal Sentence:

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 authorityOriginal Sentence:

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 concealmentOriginal Sentence:

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-headedOriginal Sentence:

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 clearlyOriginal Sentence:

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 mannerOriginal Sentence:

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 absurdOriginal Sentence:

derisive (pg.176)

Book Sentence: “The sniggering of the savages became a loud derisive jeer.”Guess the definition:Definition: in a mocking mannerOriginal Sentence:

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 peaceOriginal Sentence:

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:

antiphonal (pg. 188)

Book sentence: “Eric took up; and the twins started their antiphonal speech.”Guess the definition:Definition: adj. sung alternatelyOriginal Sentence:

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 mourningOriginal Sentence:

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 irritationOriginal Sentence:

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 fortificationOriginal Sentence:

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 areaOriginal Sentence:

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 noiseOriginal Sentence: