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 enmity | He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's ________ . . . |
| chorister | "because I'm chapter __________ and head boy." |
| bastion | . . . a rock, almost detatched, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink ________ |
| ebullience | Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ________ of children, he picked up the conch... |
| recrimination | His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous ___________. |
| tumult | He paused in the _______, standing, looking beyond them . . . |
| inscrutable | Jack lifted his head and stared at the ___________ masses of creeper that lay across the trail. |
| vicissitudes | Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the __________ of a day's hunting. |
| furtive | For a moment his movements were almost ________. |
| blatant | The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of ________ impossibility. . . |
| taboo | Here, invisible yet strong, was the _________ of the old life. |
| malevolent | Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked _________ at Jack. |
| ludicrous | But Piggy, for all his _______ body, had brains. |
| inarticulate | Simon became ________ in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. |
| discursive | The assembly shredded away and became a __________ and random scatter from the palms to the water.... |
| tremulous(ly) | The twins, holding _________ to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news. |
| leviathan | Then the sleeping _________ breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar. |
| clamor | The _________ broke out. Some of the boys wanted to go back to the beach. |
| dun | ... if you could forget how _______ and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while. |
| impervious | So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming. . . |
| covert | ... if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny _________ on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while. |
| glower | Jack turned around, red in face, his chin sunk back. He _________ up under his eyebrows. |
| rebuke | Piggy gave up the attempt to ______ Ralph. He polished his glasses again and went back to his subject. |
| fervor | If Jack was astonished by their ________ he did not show it. |
| static | . . . revolving masses of gas piled up the _________ until the air was ready to explode. |
| corpulent | Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the __________ figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies would settle once more. |
| saunter | Jack rose from the log that was his throne and _______ to the edge of the grass. |
| compel | Honesty ________ him to go on. (Sam) |
| ambush | During one of these pauses he was ______ by sleep. |
| phosphorescence | Occasionally they sang softly; occasionally they turned cartwheels down by the moving streak of ___________. |
| luminous | The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the ________ wall of his myopia. |
| talisman | By him stood Piggy still holding the _______, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. |
| acrid | He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the _________ scent of sweat and salt and the staleness of dirt. |
| ululation | Eric raised his hand and recieved a faint _________ by beating on his open mouth. |
| epaulette | He saw white drill, _________, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform. |