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Mr. Corbo
Lord of the Flies – vocabulary list
On a separate sheet of paper, please define and write a sentence for the following words. Page
numbers have been given so you can read how the word is used in its particular context. Also,
give the part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc.). Please type or print legibly.
Chapter 1
1. creepers (7)
2. proffer (9)
3. efflorescence (12)
4. specious (12)
5. effulgence (14)
6. swathing (14)
7. conch (15)
8. enmity (14)
9. strident (17)
10. matins (20)
11. precentor (20)
12. furtive (22)
13. pallidly (22)
14. suffusion (23)
15. togs (23)
16. pliant (26)
17. immured (27)
18. bastion (29)
19. hiatus (31)
Chapter 2
1. gesticulated (34)
2. induced (35)
3. exasperation (36)
4. conspiratorial (37)
5. errant (38)
6. ebullience (38)
7. clambering (38)
8. swathes (38)
9. officious (40)
10. assented (42)
11. recrimination (43)
Chapter 3
1. festoon (44)
2. gaudy (49)
3. vicissitudes (49)
4. declivities (54)
5. tacit (55)
6. inscrutably (56)
7. susurration (57)
Chapter 4
1. mirage (58)
2. opalescence (58)
3. belligerence (60)
4. impalpable (61)
5. incursion (61)
6. detritus (61)
7. disinclination (65)
8. gyration (72)
Chapter 5
1. apex (77)
2. vivid (85)
3. derisive (86)
4. tacitly (86)
5. effigy (87)
6. sough (88)
7. tempestuously (91)
8. discursive (92)
9. incantation (94)
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Chapter 6
1. interminable (99)
2. tremulously (99)
3. emphatic (101)
4. embroiled (102)
5. incredulity (103)
6. diffidently (103)
7. constrainedly (103)
8. impenetrable (104)
9. stupendous (105)
10. plinth (106)
11. guano (106)
12. clamor (108)
13. mutinously (108)
Chapter 7
1. coverts (109)
2. scurfy (110)
3. brine (110)
4. obtuseness (111)
5. swathed (111)
6. moors (112)
7. brandishing (114)
8. gully (116)
9. ruefully (115)
10. crestfallen (117)
11. sagely (118)
12. antagonism (118)
13. impervious (118)
Chapter 8
1. prefect (126)
2. rebuke (128)
3. sanctity (130)
4. laden (132)
5. palled (136)
6. paunched (136)
7. skewered (137)
8. illusive (138)
9. gorged (138)
10. runnels (138)
11. vexed (139)
12. fluent (142)
13. parody (143)
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Chapter 9
1. interspersed (146)
2. cuffing (146)
3. corpulent (146)
4. buffet (146)
5. loaming (147)
6. extract (147)
7. garlanded (149)
8. derision (149)
9. succulent (149)
10. sauntered (150)
11. cascading (152)
12. sulphurous (152)
13. unendurable (152)
14. phosphorescence (153)
15. furrowing (153)
Chapter 10
1. befouled (156)
2. loathing (157)
3. somberly (159)
4. torrid (159)
5. crags (159)
6. interrogative (161)
7. theological (161)
8. dredged (162)
9. oblong (164)
10. tendrils (165)
11. exulting (168)
Chapter 11
1. myopia (169)
2. multitudinous (173)
3. propitiatingly (173)
4. unquenchable (173)
5. accord (174)
6. pinnacles (174)
7. truculently (177)
8. cessation (178)
9. parried (179)
10. talisman (180)
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Chapter 12
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3.
4.
5.
6.
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acrid (186)
eclipsed (186)
inimical (187)
essayed (187)
antiphonal (188)
ululation (189)
fronds (183)
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8. ensconce (191)
9. cordon (191)
10. trundle (193)
11. elephantine (194)
12. crepitation (194)
13. excruciatingly (196)
14. epaulettes (200)
15. cutter (200)
16. distended (201)