Lord Of The Flies Vocabulary

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Apprehension

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anticipation of adversity or misfortune; suspicion or fear of future trouble or evil.

the faculty or act of apprehending or understanding; perception on a direct and immediate level.

acceptance of or receptivity to information without passing judgment on its validity, often without complete comprehension.

a view, opinion, or idea on any subject.

the act of arresting; seizure: Police apprehension of the burglar was aided by two alert teenagers.

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Bastion

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Fortification. a projecting portion of a rampart or fortification that forms an irregular pentagon attached at the base to the main work.

a fortified place.

anything seen as preserving or protecting some quality, condition, etc.: a bastion of solitude; a bastion of democracy.

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Clamber

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to climb, using both feet and hands; climb with effort or difficulty.

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Decorous

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characterized by dignified propriety in conduct, manners, appearance, character, etc.

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Disperse

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— verb (used with object), dis·persed, dis·pers·ing.

to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.

to spread widely; disseminate: to disperse knowledge.

to dispel; cause to vanish: The wind dispersed the fog.

Physical Chemistry. to cause (particles) to separate uniformly throughout a solid, liquid, or gas.

Optics. to subject (light) to dispersion.

— verb (used without object), dis·persed, dis·pers·ing.

to separate and move apart in different directions without order or regularity; become scattered: The crowd dispersed.

to be dispelled; be scattered out of sight; vanish: The smoke dispersed into the sky.

— adjective

Physical Chemistry. noting the dispersed particles in a dispersion.

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Effulgence

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a brilliant radiance; a shining forth.

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Loiter

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to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.

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.

— verb (used with object)

to pass (time) in an idle or aimless manner (usually followed by away ): to loiter away the afternoon in daydreaming.

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Pallid

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pale; faint or deficient in color; wan: a pallid countenance.

lacking in vitality or interest: a pallid musical performance.

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Plaint

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a complaint.

Law. a statement of grievance made to a court for the purpose of asking redress.

a lament; lamentation.

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Suffuse

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to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.

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Assent

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to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to ): to assent to a statement.

to give in; yield; concede: Assenting to his demands, I did as I was told.

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Belligerent

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warlike; given to waging war.

of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.

waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.

pertaining to war or to those engaged in war: belligerent rights.

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Blatant

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brazenly obvious; flagrant: a blatant error in simple addition; a blatant lie.

offensively noisy or loud; clamorous: blatant radios.

tastelessly conspicuous: the blatant colors of the dress.

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Ebullient

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overflowing with fervor, enthusiasm, or excitement; high-spirited: The award winner was in an ebullient mood at the dinner in her honor.

bubbling up like a boiling liquid.

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Furtive

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taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.

sly; shifty: a furtive manner.

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Gesticulate

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to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

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Hiatus

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a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

a missing part; gap or lacuna: Scholars attempted to account for the hiatus in the medieval manuscript.

any gap or opening.

Grammar, Prosody. the coming together, with or without break or slight pause, and without contraction, of two vowels in successive words or syllables, as in see easily.

Anatomy. a natural fissure, cleft, or foramen in a bone or other structure.

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Officious

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objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person.

marked by or proceeding from such forwardness: officious interference.

Obsolete. ready to serve; obliging.

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Tacit

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understood without being openly expressed; implied: tacit approval.

silent; saying nothing: a tacit partner.

unvoiced or unspoken: a tacit prayer.

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Torrid

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subject to parching or burning heat, especially of the sun, as a geographical area: the torrid sands of the Sahara.

oppressively hot, parching, or burning, as climate, weather, or air.

ardent; passionate: a torrid love story.

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Truculent

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fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.

brutally harsh; vitriolic; scathing: his truculent criticism of her work.

aggressively hostile; belligerent

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Ululation

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to howl, as a dog or a wolf; hoot, as an owl.

to utter howling sounds, as in shrill, wordless lamentation; wail.

to lament loudly and shrilly

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Impalpable

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not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible.

difficult for the mind to grasp readily or easily: impalpable distinctions.

(of powder) so fine that when rubbed between the fingers no grit is felt.

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Diffident

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lacking confidence in one's own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy.

restrained or reserved in manner, conduct, etc.

Archaic. distrustful.

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Effigy

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a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.

a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.

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Crepitation

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to make a crackling sound; crackle.

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Ensconce

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to settle securely or snugly: I found her in the library, ensconced in an armchair.

to cover or shelter; hide securely: He ensconced himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.

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Incantation

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the chanting or uttering of words purporting to have magical power.

the formula employed; a spell or charm.

magical ceremonies.

magic; sorcery.

repetitious wordiness used to conceal a lack of content; obfuscation: Her prose too often resorts to incantation.

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Inimical

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adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.

unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.

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Multitudinous

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adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful: a climate inimical to health.

unfriendly; hostile: a cold, inimical gaze.

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Propitiate

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to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.