Book Sentence: “All around him the
long scar smashed into the jungle was
a bath of heat.”
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Definition: a precipitous, rocky place;
cliff
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Book Sentence: “Ralph had been
deceived before now by the specious
appearance of depth in a beach
pool…”
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Definition: pleasing to the eye but
deceptive
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Book Sentence: “…the lagoon
attacked them with a blinding
effulgence.”
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Definition: a brilliant radiance
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Book Sentence: “He trotted through
the sand, enduring the sun’s
enmity...”
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Definition: a feeling or condition of
hostility; hatred; ill-will; animosity
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Book Sentence: “Ralph used one
hand as a fulcrum and pressed down
with the other till the shell rose...”
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Definition: the point or support on
which a lever pivots
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Book Sentence: “Immured in these
tangles, at perhaps their most difficult
moment, Ralph turned with shining
eyes to the others.”
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Definition: to imprison; to enclose
within walls
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Book Sentence: “There, where the
island petered out in water, was another
island; a rock, almost detached, standing
like a fort, facing across the green with
one bold, pink bastion.”
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Definition: a precipitous, rocky place;
cliff
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Book Sentence: “…with the martyred
expression of a parent who has to keep
up with the senseless ebullience of the
children…”
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Definition: high spirits; exhilaration;
exuberance
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Book Sentence: “Jack lifted his head
and stared at the inscrutable masses
of creeper that lay across the trail.”
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Definition: incapable of being seen
through physically; physically
impenetrable
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Book Sentence: ”Jack stood there,
streaming with sweat, streaked with
brown earth, stained by all the
vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.”
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Definition: regular change or succession
of one state or thing to another
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Book Sentence: ”But Jack was
pointing to the high declivities that led
down from the mountain to the
flatter part of the island.”
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Definition: a downward slope
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Book Sentence: “The deep sea
breaking miles away on the reef made
an undertone less perceptible than
the susurration of the blood.”
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Definition: a soft murmur; whisper
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Book Sentence: “…bird droppings,
insects perhaps, any of the strewn
detritus of land-ward life.”
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Definition: any disintegrated
material; debris
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Book Sentence: “Like a myriad of tiny
teeth in a saw, the transparencies
came scavenging over the beach.”
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Definition: a very great or indefinitely
great number of persons or things
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Book Sentence: “There had grown up
tacitly among the biguns the opinion
that Piggy was an outsider…”
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Definition: implied; unspoken
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Book sentence: “So they sat, the rocking,
tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph,
fuming; round them the close sky was
loaded with stars, save where the
mountain punched up a hole of blackness.”
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Definition: adj. impenetrable; unable to
affect
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Book sentence: “Go up and see,” said
Jack contemptuously, “and good
riddance.”
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Definition: adv. with scorn or
disregard for the law or authority
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Book sentence: “They surrounded the
covert but the sow only got away with
the sting of another spear in her
flank.”
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Definition: noun a covering or shelter;
a place of concealment
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Book sentence: “I mean it,”
whispered Piggy, “if we don’t get
home soon we’ll be barmy.”
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Definition: adj. flighty; empty-headed
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Book sentence: The twins watched
anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless
behind the luminous wall of his myopia.
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Definition: noun; inability to see distant
objects clearly
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Book sentence: “I hadn’t,” said Ralph
loudly. “I knew it all the time. I hadn’t
forgotten.” Piggy nodded
propitiatingly.
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Definition: adv. in a favorable manner
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Book sentence: With ludicrous care he
embraced the rock, pressing himself
to it above the sucking sea.
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Definition: adj. ridiculous or absurd
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Book Sentence: “The sniggering of
the savages became a loud derisive
jeer.”
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Definition: in a mocking manner
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Book sentence: “Might it not be
possible to walk boldly into the fort,
say– ‘I’ve got pax,’ laugh lightly, and
sleep among the others?”
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Definition: noun peace
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Book sentence: “He rubbed his cheek
along his forearm, smelling the acrid
scent of salt and sweat and the
staleness of dirt.”
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Definition: adj. bitter, hot, stinging to
the senses.
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Book sentence: “Eric took up; and the
twins started their antiphonal speech.”
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Definition: adj. sung alternately
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Book sentence: “Eric raised his head
and achieved a faint ululation by
beating on his open mouth.”
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Definition: noun a howl or wail; a cry
of mourning
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Book sentence: “He could not bring
himself to be specific at first; but then
fear and loneliness goaded him.”
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Definition: verb to instigate or impel
by some form of mental annoyance;
to drive by continued irritation
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Book sentence: “At first light he would creep
into the thicket, squeeze between the
twisted stems, ensconce himself so deeply
that only a crawler like himself could come
through, and that crawler would be jabbed.”
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Definition: verb to shelter within or behind a
fortification
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Book sentence: “Then he would sit and the
search would pass him by, and the cordon
waver on, ululating along the island, and he
would be free.”
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Definition: noun a line of troops composed
of men placed at detached intervals to
prevent passage to or from a guarded area
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Book sentence: “He heard a curious
trickling sound and then a louder
crepitation as if someone were
unwrapping great sheets of cellophane.”
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Definition: noun a crackling noise
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