Lord of the Flies Vocabulary

Match the following

• timid, scared

• vague

• greedily hungry

• belligerent

• indefinite in nature, shape, or form

• ravenous

• war-like

• oppressive

• unjustly harsh; causing discomfort

• tremulous

Match the following

• to make or use gestures when speaking

• inscrutable

• a crude representation of one who is hated

• lament

• not easily understood

• perceptible

• capable of being known or understood

• gesticulate

• to express sorrow

• effigy

Match the following

• unspoken

• chastise

• to punish

• tempestuous

• wishing evil or harm to others

• tacit

• having no apparent end

• malevolent

• of or resembling a storm or tumult

• interminable

Match the following

• to blend

• covert

• a hidden or secret place/operation

• vulnerable

• incapable of being entered/pierced

• assimilate

• open to being hurt

• daunting

• overwhelming

• impervious

Match the following

• scornful

• contemptuous

• forceful; decisive

• apprehension

• wild excitement

• frenzy

• nervousness

• emphatic

• rebel against authority

• mutinous

Match the following

• to stick out

• protrude

• mocking or ridiculing

• cynicism

• inclination to doubt goodness

• derisive

• a comic imitation of something

• parody

• fat, obese

• corpulent

Match the following

• dark, gloomy, sad

• sanctity

• when distant objects seem blurry

• unquenchable

• holiness of a person, place, or thing

• myopia

• not able to be satisfied

• ensconce

• to enclose

• somber

Match the following

• to express disapproval

• cordon

• made of distinct parts

• rebuke

• freedom

• ululation

• a repeating howl or wail

• composite

• a line of troops to guard

• liberation

Match the following

• strong as an elephant

• ludicrous

• twisting in pain

• writing

• savagely brutal

• truculent

• an object believed to be magical

• talisman

• ridiculous in a negative way

• elephantine

Match the following

• repeating subject or theme

• motif

• can't believe is true

• incredulous

• loud, harsh sound

• martyr

• one willing to die for a cause

• strident

• to offer a counter accusation

• recrimination