Lord of the Flies Vocabulary

Match the following

• greedily hungry

• tremulous

• timid, scared

• ravenous

• unjustly harsh; causing discomfort

• belligerent

• war-like

• vague

• indefinite in nature, shape, or form

• oppressive

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• to make or use gestures when speaking

• perceptible

• capable of being known or understood

• inscrutable

• not easily understood

• effigy

• a crude representation of one who is hated

• gesticulate

• to express sorrow

• lament

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• unspoken

• tempestuous

• wishing evil or harm to others

• chastise

• of or resembling a storm or tumult

• tacit

• to punish

• interminable

• having no apparent end

• malevolent

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• open to being hurt

• covert

• incapable of being entered/pierced

• assimilate

• overwhelming

• impervious

• to blend

• daunting

• a hidden or secret place/operation

• vulnerable

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• scornful

• contemptuous

• nervousness

• apprehension

• forceful; decisive

• frenzy

• wild excitement

• mutinous

• rebel against authority

• emphatic

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the following

• to stick out

• corpulent

• inclination to doubt goodness

• parody

• mocking or ridiculing

• derisive

• fat, obese

• protrude

• a comic imitation of something

• cynicism

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• dark, gloomy, sad

• somber

• holiness of a person, place, or thing

• ensconce

• when distant objects seem blurry

• sanctity

• to enclose

• unquenchable

• not able to be satisfied

• myopia

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• to express disapproval

• composite

• freedom

• liberation

• a repeating howl or wail

• cordon

• a line of troops to guard

• ululation

• made of distinct parts

• rebuke

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Match the following

• ridiculous in a negative way

• talisman

• savagely brutal

• ludicrous

• an object believed to be magical

• writing

• twisting in pain

• elephantine

• strong as an elephant

• truculent

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Match the following

• to offer a counter accusation

• strident

• one willing to die for a cause

• motif

• repeating subject or theme

• martyr

• can't believe is true

• recrimination

• loud, harsh sound

• incredulous

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9