lord of the flies chapters 3 & 4 vocabulary. festooned (verb) decorated “the tree trunks and...
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Lord of the FliesChapters 3 & 4 Vocabulary
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Festooned (verb)
Decorated
“The tree trunks and the
creepers that festooned them lost
themselves in a green dusk thirty feet
above him, and all about was the undergrowth.”
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Oppressive (adjective)
Very harsh or severe
“The silence of the forest was more
oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of
insects.”
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Furtive (adjective)
Stealthy; sneaky
“…and for a minute became less a hunter than a
furtive thing, ape-like among the
tangle of trees.”
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Vicissitudes (noun)
Difficulties or hardships beyond
one’s control
“Jack stood there, streaming with
sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained
by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.”
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Contrite (adjective)
Grieving and sorry for sins or
shortcomings
“Simon’s contrite face appeared in the
hole.”
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Antagonism (noun)
Hostility or anger
“Now the antagonism was
audible.”
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Audible (adjective)
Able to be heard
“Now the antagonism was
audible.”
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Tacit (adjective)
Understood without words
“… and by tacit consent they left the
shelter and went toward the bathing
pool.”
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Myriad (noun)
A great number
“Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies same scavenging over the beach.”
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Taboo (adjective)
A prohibition based on social custom
“Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old
life.”