V
“Ralph lay in a ____, wondering about his wounds.”
What is covert?
“The group of boys stirred and ____.”
What is consulted?
“Piggy broke off, ____.”
What is sniveling?
“Piggy once more was the center of social ____ so that everyone felt cheerful and normal.”
What is derision?
“The usual brightness was gone from his eyes and he walked with a sort of determination like an old man.”
What is glum?
“There was the neck of land, the ledge skirting the rock, up there were the red ____.”
What is pinnacles?
“He struck in a humming circle behind him and Ralph only just ____ the blow.”
What is parried?
“Piggy peered anxiously into the ____ veil that hung between him and the world.”
What is luminous?
“...he freed them from the rocks and the figure from the wind’s ____.”
What is indignity?
“Sitting on the tremendous rock in the ____ sun, Roger received this news as an illumination.”
What is torrid?
“A fist withdrew and came back like a ____, so that the whole shelter exploded into light.”
What is piston?
“Here there were wide spaces with thickets and huge trees and the trend of the ground led him up as the forest opened.”
What is interspersed?
“____ they squared up to each other but kept just out of fighting distance.”
What is Truculently?
“They understood only too well the liberation into ____ that the concealing paint brought.”
What is savagery?
“He walked ____ between the trunks, his face empty of expression, and the blood was dry round his mouth and chin.”
What is drearily?
“He laughed at Piggy, expecting him to retire ____ as usual and in pained silence.”
What is meekly?
“His stomach ____ and the water dried on it.”
What is protruded?
“There was silence, except for the ____ murmur of the bees.”
What is multitudinous?
“Ralph nodded, ____.”
What is propitiatingly?
“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the ____ figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.”
What is corpulent?
“The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his ____.”
What is myopia?
“He was ____.”
What is batty?
“The twins, puzzled, looked at each other; while Piggy, reassured by the ____ of violence, stood up carefully.”
What is cessation?
“Before the party had started a great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and ____, sat there like an idol.”
What is garlanded?
“The edge of the lagoon became a streak of ____ that advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.”
What is phosphorescence?