Lord of the Flies

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Lord of the Flies

• Vocabulary CH 3

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avidly

• eagerly

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Example

• "Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him
  again and he searched the ground avidly."

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inscrutable

• not easily understood

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Example

• "Jack lifted his head and stared at the
  inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the
  trail."

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vicissitudes

• difficulties or hardships

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Example

• "Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked
  with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes
  of a day's hunting."

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contrite

• sincerely sorry for shortcomings

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Example

• "Simon's contrite face appeared in the hole.
• Sorry.

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compulsion

• irresistible impulse or force

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Example

• "He Jack tried to convey the compulsion to
  track down and kill that was swallowing him up."