Chapter Three - Lord of the Flies Key Vocab.

batty

• the ability to fly

• silly/crazy

• wing-like

• very knowledgeable

crackers

• hungry

• crunchy

• crazy

• fragile

inscrutable

• difficult to understand

• easy to understand

• without scruples

• without hope

opaque (opaca)

• not transparent

• transparent

• crazy

• unkind

declivities (declives)

• not easily understood

• not clear

• crazy

• downward slopes

rapt (arrebatada)

• not easily understood

• showing complete disinterest in something

• showing complete interest in something

• not clear

seductive

• making someone do or want something; to make attractive

• not clear

• crazy

• downward slopes

vicissitudes (vicisitudes)

• downward slopes

• crazy

• passing of time/life

• to make someone want something

compulsion

• not clear

• downward slopes

• strong urge to do something

• passing of time/life

tacit

(tácita)

• downward slopes

• expressed without words/speech

• passing of time/life

• strong urge to do something