Lord of the Flies Vocabulary

Match the following

• unjustly harsh; causing discomfort

• tremulous

• indefinite in nature, shape, or form

• belligerent

• timid, scared

• oppressive

• greedily hungry

• ravenous

• war-like

• vague

Match the following

• capable of being known or understood

• effigy

• to express sorrow

• lament

• not easily understood

• perceptible

• a crude representation of one who is hated

• gesticulate

• to make or use gestures when speaking

• inscrutable

Match the following

• of or resembling a storm or tumult

• tacit

• having no apparent end

• chastise

• unspoken

• interminable

• wishing evil or harm to others

• tempestuous

• to punish

• malevolent

Match the following

• a hidden or secret place/operation

• vulnerable

• open to being hurt

• covert

• to blend

• daunting

• overwhelming

• impervious

• incapable of being entered/pierced

• assimilate

Match the following

• forceful; decisive

• mutinous

• scornful

• contemptuous

• nervousness

• apprehension

• rebel against authority

• emphatic

• wild excitement

• frenzy

Match the following

• inclination to doubt goodness

• cynicism

• to stick out

• protrude

• a comic imitation of something

• corpulent

• fat, obese

• derisive

• mocking or ridiculing

• parody

Match the following

• not able to be satisfied

• somber

• dark, gloomy, sad

• unquenchable

• holiness of a person, place, or thing

• sanctity

• to enclose

• ensconce

• when distant objects seem blurry

• myopia

Match the following

• a repeating howl or wail

• composite

• a line of troops to guard

• ululation

• freedom

• cordon

• made of distinct parts

• liberation

• to express disapproval

• rebuke

Match the following

• strong as an elephant

• writing

• ridiculous in a negative way

• elephantine

• savagely brutal

• ludicrous

• twisting in pain

• talisman

• an object believed to be magical

• truculent

Match the following

• repeating subject or theme

• recrimination

• loud, harsh sound

• incredulous

• to offer a counter accusation

• strident

• can't believe is true

• motif

• one willing to die for a cause

• martyr