Lord of the Flies ch. 1-3 Vocabulary

effulgence means

• intelligent

• giving off rays of light

• overflowing

• not important

an irrelevance is

• something that's important

• something that's complicated

• something that does not matter

• something that's very bright in color

Something specious can be

• proven false

• not as a seems

• deceiving

• all of these

The best time of year to appreciate efflorescence would be:

• winter

• spring

• summer

• fall

True or False: a pendulum remains still

• True

• False

True or False: An evergreen forest would best be described as aromatic.

• True

• False

Fill in: At the end of the day, if you're not careful you could become ________________ in a tangle of backpack straps and jackets at people's lockers.

• offhand

• pendulum

• immured

• enmity

He answered my question so _____________ that I wondered what I had done to make him dislike me so much.

• offhand

• irrelevance

• effulgence

• contemptuously

Determine if the sentence is used correctly: The kid who wouldn't get off the zipline was very pendulum as he swung back and forth.

• correct

• incorrect

Determine if the sentence is used correctly: July 4th fireworks make such a stupendous noise that my dog barks at every huge boom.

• correct

• incorrect