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“We chose those rocks right along beyond the bathing pool as a ____.”
What is lavatory?
“That’s why its so ____...the shelter might fall down if that rain comes back.”
What is tottery?
“...the skin of the body, scurfy with ____-”
What is brine?
“Nothing but what you might expect: pink, tumbled boulders with ____ layered on them like icing…”
What is guano?
“Jack brought up the rear, displaced and ____.”
What is brooding?
“Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ____ protest made, and joined the others.”
What is ineffectual?
“The assembly shredded away and became a ____ and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight.”
What is discursive?
“____, the boys fell silent or muttering.”
What is mutinously?
“For most of the way they were forced right down to the bare rock by the water and had to edge along between that and the dark ____ of the forest.”
What is luxuriance?
“As though he were ____ the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did.”
What is serenading?
“If you give up,” said Piggy, in an ____ whisper, “what ‘ud happen to me?”
What is appalled?
“That was from Piggy, shocked out of ____.”
What is decorum?
“____, Simon allowed his pace to slacken until he was walking side by side with Ralph and looking up at him through the coarse black hair that now fell into his eyes.”
What is diffidently?
“Jack cleared his throat and spoke in a ____, tight voice.”
What is queer?
“If Jack was astonished by their ____ they did not show it.”
What is fervor?
“A shadow fronted him ____.”
What is tempestuously?
“At first he was a silent effigy of sorrow; but then the ____ rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch.”
What is lamentation?
“I don’t remember this cliff,” said Jack, ____, “so this must be the bit of coast I missed.”
What is crestfallen?
“Then the sleeping ____ breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar.”
What is leviathan?
“Gorged, they alighted by his ____ of sweat and drank.”
What is runnels?
“Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a ____.”
What is theorem?
What is “Piggy bumped into him and a twin grabbed him as he made for the ____ of paling stars.”
What is oblong
“Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, ____, for the first time.”
What is infuriatingly?
“...and a steep slope up to the shattered rocks that crowned the ____.”
What is bastion?
“For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the ____ of laughter.”
What is parody?