Lord of the Flies: Chapters 1-2 Vocabulary

_____ main element or feature

• induced

• motif

• contemptuously

• foliage

_____ a kind of wall built out into the water

• interposed

• enmity

• jetty

• specious

_____ placed or put between

• proffer

• interposed

• foliage

• effulgence

_____ plausible but actually false

• conspirital

• specious

• valid

• motif

_____ an offer or proposal

• proffer

• effulgence

• embossed

• efflorescence

_____ the point of support on which a lever moves something

• contemptuously

• interposed

• decorous

• Fulcrum

_____ great brightness; radiance

• bastion

• foliage

• immured

• effulgence

_____ bitter attitude or feelings of an enemy; hostility

• enmity

• specious

• jetty

• gesticulated

_____ gesture with the hands and arms while speaking

• conspiratorial

• fulcrum

• gesticulated

• foliage

_____ showing good taste

• decorous

• enmity

• induced

• immured