Lord of the Flies Vocab 1

Match the following

• To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light

• Suffusion

• someone who doesn’t easily believe; skeptical

• Fulcrum

•  bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable

• Pliant

• unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death

• Pallor

• the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

• Incredulous

Match the following

• promising bad fortune

• Clambering

• violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar

• Tumult

• the state or a period of flowering

• Ill-omened

• the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

• Efflorescence

• describing plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils

• Fulcrum

Define Ill-omened

• promising bad fortune

• violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar

• To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light

Define Clambering

• bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable

• describing plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils

• promising bad fortune

Define Efflorescence

• the state or a period of flowering

• someone who doesn’t easily believe; skeptical

• the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

Define Tumult

• describing plants that creep or climb like vines, but without benefit of tendrils

• To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light

• violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar

Define Suffusion

• someone who doesn’t easily believe; skeptical

• the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

• To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light

Define Incredulous

• violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar

• someone who doesn’t easily believe; skeptical

• bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable

Define Fulcrum

• the state or a period of flowering

• the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

• promising bad fortune

Define Pallor

• the support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns in moving a body

• bending readily; flexible; supple; adaptable

• unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death