__________: the quality of being cheerful and full of energy; exuberance

__________: a brilliant radiance

_______: the state of being opposed or hostile to someone or something

________: enclose or confine (someone) against their will

_______: unwilling or unable to believe something

_________: assertive of authority in an annoyingly domineering way

__________: bending rapidly; flexible

__________: a whispering sound

a change of fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant

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Ralph turned to the shelter and lifted a branch with a whole tiling of leaves. The leaves came apart and fluttered down. Simon's contrite face appeared in the hole. "Sorry."

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Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.

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With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence

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He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes.

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Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope: whether this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper, stood higher than that. Somehow, they moved up. Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.

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If you're hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if--" He flushed suddenly. "There's nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle." They were silent again: Simon intent, Ralph incredulous and faintly indignant. He sat up, rubbing one shoulder with a dirty hand. "Well, I don't know."

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If you're hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if--" He flushed suddenly. "There's nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle." They were silent again: Simon intent, Ralph incredulous and faintly indignant. He sat up, rubbing one shoulder with a dirty hand. "Well, I don't know."

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There was pushing and pulling and officious cries. Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.

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Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.

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The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.