Lord of the Flies Chapter 5 and 6 Vocab

leviathan

a giant creature (Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the water rose, the weed streamed.)

effigy

a likeness; a representation of a person form of sculpture (At first he was a silent effigy of sorrow.)

incantation

chanting, a ritual recitation of words (The storm of sound beat at them , an incantation of hatred.)

perilous

dangerous (Simon felt a perilous necessity to speak; but to speak in assembly was a terrible thing to him.)

interminable

endless, seeming to have no end (An interminable dawn faded the stars out and at last, sad and gray, filtered into shelter.)

emphatic

forceful: emphasized (The reply was emphatic for anyone to doubt them.)

rendered

made ( He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words.)

chasms

marked divisions, separation, or differences, deep hole in the earth ( He was surrounded on all sides by chasms of empty air.)

sough

moaning: sighing (Piggy heard silently the sough and whisper from the reef.)

decorum

proper behavior (That was from Piggy, shock out of decorum.)

discursive

rambling (His tone is often discursive.)

mutinously

rebelliously (Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering,)

ludicrous

ridiculous, foolish (But Piggy, for all this ludicrous body, had brains.)

derisive

scornful (The derisive laughter that rose had fear in it and condemnation.)

guano

seabird droppings (Castle rock is very square with pink, tumbled boulders with guano layered on them.)

plinth

square rock serving as a base (The concrete plinth covered at high tide.)

tremulously

tremblingly (The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter.)

lamentably

woefully (His painful injury was lamentable; everyone was sorry for him.)