Lord of the Flies Vocabulary

What does ebullience mean?

• to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

• high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

• to bring about, produce, or cause:

• understood without being openly expressed; implied:

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

What does inscrutable mean?

• to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.

• understood without being openly expressed; implied:

• incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.

• to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to):

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does assented mean?

• an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.

• a downward slope, as of ground (opposed to acclivity).

• an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.

• to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to):

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What does gesticulated mean?

• to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

• a downward slope, as of ground (opposed to acclivity).

• a soft murmur; whisper.

• high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does swathes mean?

• understood without being openly expressed; implied:

• the act of recriminating, or counter charging:

• to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.

• deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What does susurration mean?

• a soft murmur; whisper.

• of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.

• the act of recriminating, or counter charging:

• a downward slope, as of ground (opposed to acclivity).

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What does recrimination mean?

• a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.

• deviating from the regular or proper course; erring; straying.

• the act of recriminating, or counter charging:

• brilliantly or excessively showy:

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What does conspiratorial mean?

• to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.

• to bring about, produce, or cause:

• to wrap, bind, or swaddle with bands of some material; wrap up closely or fully.

• a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose:

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What does officious mean?

• objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome:

• of or relating to plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils.

• to agree or concur; subscribe to (often followed by to):

• an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

What does vicissitudes mean?

• a change or variation occurring in the course of something.

• high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance.

• brilliantly or excessively showy:

• objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome:

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4