Lord of the Flies Chapter 1-4 Vocabulary

to present or offer

• proffer
• upheaval
• sinewy
• contrite

(n.) a sudden, violent upward movement; great disorder or radical change

• upheaval
• efflorescence
• swathe
• scavenge

Blooming of flowers, state of flowering

• efflorescence
• whelm
• vicissitude
• susurration

(adj.) deceptive, apparently good or valid but lacking real merit

• specious
• efflorescence
• riotous
• pallor

wrap around; bandage

• swathe
• officious
• riotous
• contrite

a brilliant radiance

• effulgence
• furtive
• officious
• scavenge

(n.) hatred, ill-will

• enmity
• furtive
• specious
• upheaval

secret, stealthy

• furtive
• upheaval
• festoon
• ebulliant

(n.) an extreme or unnatural paleness

• pallor
• festoon
• furtive
• effulgence

to imprison

• immure
• officious
• festoon
• enmity