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English 10 Honors
LOTF Vocabulary List 2
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1. Crumple (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds
 His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness.
2. Corpulent (adj) fat
 The bee stung Piggy’s corpulent body, and he swelled up even more.
3. Irrelevance (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand
 The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of
his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an
irrelevance.
4. Immerse (verb) to cover something completely; occupy yourself totally with something
 Perhaps if the boys were immersed in a good book, they wouldn’t feel so trapped on
the island.
5. Submerge (verb) put under water
 In order to get clean, Ralph had to submerge his entire body in the lagoon.
6. Oppressive Burdensome, unjustly harsh, or tyrannical
 The boys’ oppressive behavior towards Piggy is frustrating.
7. Inscrutable (adj.): Not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable
 At this point in the story, Simon is inscrutable because he acts kindly but speaks very
little.
8. Furtive Taken, done, used secretly or by stealth
 Jack has to be furtive while hunting the pigs; otherwise, they will run when they hear
him.
9. Mirage Something illusory, without substance or reality
 The island was so beautiful it looked like a mirage – as if it was not real.
10. Preposterous Completely contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd; senseless;
utterly foolish
 It would be preposterous if the boys tried to swim back to England from the island.