Vocabulary Lord Of The Flies Chapter 2 Summary

Lord of the Flies Vocabulary

Chapter 1

1. proffer: offer "The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but his proffer of acquaintance was not made."

2. motif: single or repeated design "Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape..."

3. specious: deceptive "Ralph had been deceived before now by the specious appearance of depth in a beach pool and he approached this one preparing to be disappointed."

4. lolled: lounged "Ralph lolled in the water."

5. enmity: ill-will "He [Ralph] trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes."

6. interposed: intruded: got between "The shell was interesting and pretty and
furtive: sly, devious "There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy."

15. pliant: pliable; flexible "Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles."

16. immured walled in "Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult

Vocabulary Chapter 2

Fire on the Mountain

1. gesticulated: gestured with one's hands "He gesticulated widely."

2. induced: persuaded "At last Ralph induced him to held the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child's voice."

3. clambering: climbing, scrambling "Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar."

4. swathes: areas similar to rows left by a mower "Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar."

5. grotesque: "Then they inched the grotesque dead think [the log] up the rock and toppled it over on top."

6. officious: too eager to serve or advise "There was pushing and pulling and officious cries."

7. recrimination: an accusation made in retaliation "His [Piggy's] voice lifted into the whine of virtuous
daunting: dismaying "The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated."

5. bravado: foolhardiness "Ralph surprised himself, not so much by the quality of his voice, which was even, but by the bravado of its intention."

Vocabulary Chapter 8

Gift for the Darkness

1. sanctity: holiness; inviolability "The wood he fetched was close at hand, a fallen tree on the platform that they did not need for the assembly, yet to the others the sanctity of the platform had protected even what was useless there."

2. demure: modest "Each of them [Jack & Roger] wore the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels."

3. fervor: intensity "If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it."

Vocabulary Chapter 9

A View to a Death

1. interspersed: interwoven; with something at intervals in between "Here there were wide spaces interspersed with thickets and huge trees and the rend of the ground led him up as the forest opened."

2. corpulent: with a large, bulky body "Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once