"From the pig-run came the quick, hard patter of hoofs, a castanet sound, ____________, maddening--the promise of meat."
seductive
100
"Here there were wide spaces __________________ with thickets and huge trees and the rend of the ground led him up as the forest opened."
interspersed
100
"The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his ____________________."
myopia
100
"The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the _____________________ wall of his myopia."
luminous
100
"Other boys were appearing now, tiny tots some of them, brown, with __________________ bellies of small savages."
distended
200
"The smaller boys were know no by the _______________ title of 'littlun.'"
generic
200
"There was no reply. To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and _________________ creatures from their feasting by the fire."
inimical
200
"Simon's _______________ face appeared in the hole. "Sorry."
contrite
200
"I expect the beast disguised itself." "Perhaps," said the chief. A ____________________ speculation presented itself."
theological
200
"Jack lifted his head and stared at the __________ masses of creeper that lay across the trail."
inscrutable
300
"At first the twisted stems, _________________ himself so deep that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed."
ensconce
300
"Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground __________."
avidly
300
"The night was cool and ___________________ of immediate terror."
purged
300
"The boys with the spit gave Ralph and Piggy each a _______________ chunk [of meat]."
succulent
300
"Behind him came the twins, worried now of a while but full of ___________________ vitality."
unquenchable
400
"Ralph gazed bewildered at his [Jack's] ___________________ face.
rapt
400
"There was a silence, except for the ___________________ murmur of the bees."
multitudinous
400
"...Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural _______________."
belligerence
400
"Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the ___________________ of a day's hunting. "
vicissitudes
400
"Piggy and Ralph under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this _________________ but partly secure society."
demented
500
"Piggy once more was the center of social ________________ so that everyone felt cheerful and normal."
derision
500
"Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of ________________ impossibility..."
blatant
500
"Jack rose from the log that was his throne and __________________ to the edge of the grass."
sauntered
500
"Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the _________________ figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more."