Lord of the Flies Name

Lord of the Flies Name:

Chapter 3-4 Date:

Vocabulary Handout Per: ____/15points

Using context clues guess the meaning of the word. Then find the denotation or the dictionary definition of the word. Finally, write a complete and accurate sentence using the word.

Word / Word in Context / What do you think the word means? / Denotation / Use the word in a complete and accurate sentence.
furtive (adjective) / “Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees” (37).
tacit (adjective) / “Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool” (42).
clamorously (adverb) / “Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously” (43).
Malevolently (adverb) / “Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack” (54).
procession (noun) / “Jack easily, even at that distance, tall, red-haired, and inevitably leading the procession” (52).

Lord of the Flies Name:

Chapter 5-6 Date:

Vocabulary Handout Per: ____/15 points

Using context clues guess the meaning of the word. Then find the denotation or the dictionary definition of the word. Finally, write a complete and accurate sentence using the word.

Word / Word in Context / What do you think the word means? / Denotation / Use the word in a complete and accurate sentence.
intimidation (noun) / “A spring had been tapped, far beyond the reach of authority or even physical intimidation” (66).
emphatic (adjective) / “The reply was too emphatic for anyone to doubt them” (77).
diffidently (adverb) / “Diffidently Simon allowed his pace to slacken until he was walking side by side with Ralph” (80).
impervious (adjective) / “So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness” (94).
daunting (adjective) / “The word was too good, too bitter, too successfully daunting to be repeated” (92).