Quizlet Lord of the Flies Vocab

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  1. acrid: Unpleasantly sharp or bitter taste or smell
  2. bastion: A stronghold or fortification; similar to a stronghold
  3. blatant: Totally or offensively obtrusive; very obvious
  4. chorister: A singer or leader of a choir
  5. clamor: A loud outcry; great expression of discontent
  6. compelled: to force or drive; exert a strong, irresistible force on
  7. cordon: A line of people or ships stationed to guard
  8. corpulent: Excessively fat
  9. crestfallen: Dispirited and depressed; dejected
  10. declivities: Downward slope, as of a hill
  11. decorous: Exhibiting appropriate behavior or conduct
  12. demure: Modest and reserved in manner or behavior
  13. ebullience: Zestful or spirited enthusiasm
  14. efflorescence: Blooming of flowers; state of flowering
  15. elephantine: The size of an elephant; enormous size/strength
  16. enmity: ill-will; hostility
  17. enterprise: An undertaking of a business organization; industrious
  18. epaulettes: A fringed strap worn on military uniforms
  19. fervor: Great intensity of emotion; intense heat
  20. glowered: Looked at or stared angrily or sullenly
  21. hiatus: A gap or interruption in continuity; a break or pause
  22. impervious: Incapable of being penetrated of affected
  23. inarticulate: Incomprehensible; unable to speak with clarity
  24. ineffectual: insufficient to produce an effect; useless
  25. inscrutable: difficult to understand, mysterious
  26. jeer: to abuse vocally; taunt or mock
  27. leviathan: Something very large; giant sea creature in the Bible
  28. ludicrous: laughably and obviously absurd; foolish
  29. luminous: emitting light; full of light
  30. malevolently: Having an ill will or wishing harm to others; malicious
  31. mutinously: Unruly; insubordinate or constituting a mutiny
  32. myopia: nearsightedness
  33. oppressive: Using power unjustly; burdensome
  34. parried: deflected or warded off; avoided
  35. quavered: trembled. or spoke in a trembling voice
  36. rebuke: To criticize sharply; check or repress
  37. recrimination: the act of accusing in return; opposing another charge
  38. sauntered: To walk at a leisurely pace; stroll
  39. sinewy: lean and muscular; stringy and tough
  40. sniveling: To sniffle; complain or whine tearfully
  41. taboo: excluded or forbidden from use or mention
  42. tacit: not spoken; implied by actions or statements
  43. talisman: An object with magical power
  44. tirade: a long angry or violent speech; a diatribe
  45. tumult: commotion of a great crowd; disorder
  46. vicissitudes: A change or variation; unexpected changes in life