Lord Of The Flies Vocab 7,8,9

Front 1

-easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with, or use.
- that can be used, entered, reached, etc.: an accessible road; accessible ruins.
-obtainable; attainable: accessible evidence.
-open to the influence of

Back 1

accessible

Front 2

to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place
-to move in a slow, idle manner, making purposeless stops in the course of a trip, journey, errand, etc.: to loiter on the way to work.
-to waste time or dawdle over work: He loiters over his homework until one in the morning.

Back 2

loiter

Front 3

dejected; dispirited; discouraged.
-having a drooping crest or head.

Back 3

crestfallen

Front 4

not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable
-incapable of being injured or impaired:
- incapable of being influenced, persuaded, or affected

Back 4

impervious

Front 5

a project undertaken or to be undertaken, esp. one that is important or difficult or that requires boldness or energy:
-a plan for such a project.
-participation or engagement in such projects
-boldness or readiness in undertaking; adventurous spirit; ingenuity.
5. a company organized for commercial purposes; business firm.

Back 5

enterprise

Front 6

-2look or stare angrily or sullenly.
-An angry or sullen look or stare.

Back 6

glowered

Front 7

to express sharp, stern disapproval of; reprove; reprimand.

Back 7

rebuke

Front 8

characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved.
-affectedly or coyly decorous, sober, or sedate.

Back 8

demure

Front 9

great warmth and earnestness of feeling
-ntense heat.

Back 9

fervor

Front 10

perceived by or affecting the senses
- readily affected through the senses
-of or pertaining to sensible objects or to the senses.

Back 10

sensuously

Front 11

pertaining to or characterized by a fixed or stationary condition.
- showing little or no change: a static concept;
- lacking movement, development, or vitality: The novel was marred by static characterizations, especially in its central figures.
- Sociology. referring to a condition of social life bound by tradition.
- Electricity. pertaining to or noting static electricity.
- noting or pertaining to atmospheric electricity interfering with radar, radio, the sending and receiving of wireless messages, etc.
-Physics. acting by mere weight without producing motion

Back 11

static

Front 12

a blow, as with the hand or fist.
-a violent shock or concussion

Back 12

buffet

Front 13

large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat.

Back 13

corpulent

Front 14

To walk at a leisurely pace; stroll

Back 14

sauntered

Front 15

a waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface.
- a series of shallow or steplike waterfalls, either natural or artificial.
- anything that resembles a waterfall, esp. in seeming to flow or fall in abundance:
- a chain of steps for dissipating the momentum of falling water in a steep place in order to maintain a steady rate of flow.
- an arrangement of a lightweight fabric in folds falling one over another in random or zigzag fashion.
-a type of firework resembling a waterfall in effect.
-Chemistry. a series of vessels, from each of which a fluid successively overflows to the next, thus presenting a large absorbing surface, as to a gas.

Back 15

cascading