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.)