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Lord of the Flies

• Vocabulary CH 4

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whelming

• engulfing, covering

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Example

• "They accepted the pleasures of morning, the
  bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air..."

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blatant

• brazenly obvious, flagrant

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Example

• "Strange things happened at midday.  The
  glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of
  blatant 
• impossibility..."

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belligerence

• an aggressive, stubborn attitude

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Example

• "...Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a
  natural belligerence."

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chastisement

• punishment

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Example

• "In his other life Maurice had received
  chastisement for filling a younger eye with
  sand."

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myriad

• innumerable

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Example

• "Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the
  transparencies (baby crabs) came scavenging over
  the beach."