Lord of the Flies Vocabulary List Flashcards

Creepers

Vines, anything that grows and creeps along surfaces.

Proffer

offer of acceptance

Efflorescence

Vegetation

Specious

Something that is false or misleading

Effulgence

the state or being bright or reflective

Swathing

surrounding

Conch

a shell that can be blown into

enmity

to bear down or to invoke power negatively

strident

very loud to the point of irritation

matins

a morning church service

precentor

director

furtive

doing an action sneakily with a high risk of being caught

pallidy

pale, ghastly, ghostly; abnormally white or waxy

suffusion

slow and eventual spread of something else

togs

clothes

pliant

flexible, bendable, breakable

immured

captured, confined, imprisonment against ones will

bastion

The staunch upholding of values, orders, and ideals.
Also a defensive work of a fort

hiatus

pause, break, time in between two things

gesticulated

using non-verbal forms of communication to get a point across.

induced

bring about

exasperation

being really annoyed or ticked off at someone

conspiratorial

Realtin to a secret plot or agreement

errant

Straying from the right course

ebullience

eager enjoyment or approval

clambering

climb akwardly

swathes

wrap in swaddling clothes

officious

intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

asented

approval or agreement

recrimination

mutual accusations

festoon

wrapped around

gaudy

tastelessly showy

vicissitudes

a variation in circumstance or fortune

declevities

a downward slope or bend

tacit

implied by or inferred from actions or statements

inscrutably

of an obscure nature

susurration

The sound of people whispering

mirage

illusion

opalescence

the visual property of something having a milky brightness

belligerence

Hostile attitude

impalpable

not perceptible to the touch

incursion

the act of entering some territory

detritus

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken

disinclination

a certain degree of unwillingness

gyration

a single complete turn