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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.
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