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Lord of The Flies Vocab

  1. thickets that provide cover or shelter
    coverts
  2. discouraging or overwhelming
    daunting
  3. not easily disturbed or penetrated
    impervious
  4. in a scornful manner
    contemptuously
  5. trembling or shaking
    tremulous
  6. mocking or ridiculing
    derisive
  7. become boring or uninteresting
    palled
  8. shiftly; stealthy
    furtive
  9. disposition to doubt human kindness
    cynicism
  10. fat, obese
    corpulent
  11. comic imitation of something that is meant to be taken seriously
    parody
  12. stuck out
    protruded
  13. light emitted by a substance that has absorbed radiant energy
    phosphorescence
  14. made dirty
    befouled
  15. taking into and making one's own
    assimilating
  16. oppressively hot
    torrid
  17. twisting and turning
    writhing
  18. rejoicing
    exulting
  19. in a conciliatory manner
    propitiatingly
  20. not able to be extinguished
    unquenchable
  21. burned or scorched
    charred
  22. ridiculous
    ludicrous
  23. in a threatening manner
    truculently
  24. howling
    ululation
  25. as strong or as large as an elephant
    elephantine
  26. a crackling
    crepitation
  27. a line set up to gaurd or enclose an area
    cordon
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Lord of The Flies Vocab
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Vocabulary Quiz- Monday, April 18, 2011
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