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“I was with him when he found the ___.”
What is conch?
“There was a general ___.”
What is dispersal?
“There came a pause, a ___, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm.”
What is hiatus?
“Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a ___ of palm between the scar and the sea.”
What is fringe?
“He flashed a ___ grin at the other two.”
What is conspiratorial?
“A kind of ___ was spread over them and the scene and they were conscious of the glamour and made happy by it.”
What is glamour?
“The difficulty was not the steep ___ round the shoulders of the rock, but the occasional plunges through the undergrowth to get to the next path.”
What is ascent?
“Now the forest stirred, roared, ___.”
What is flailed?
“They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the ___ of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.”
What is enormity?
“The noise of the ___ assembly faded up the mountain.”
What is errant?
“Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like ___ needles.”
What is pliant?
“Piggy stood and the rose of ___ faded slowly from his cheeks.”
What is indignation?
“He ___ wildly.”
What is gesticulated?
“All at once he found he could talk ___ and explain what he had to say.”
What is fluently?
“Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers that ___ the dead or dying trees.”
What is festooned?
“The ____ drained away from Jack’s face.”
What is suffusion?
“The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff ___ by a skewed block;...”
What is surmounted?
“Green candles,” said Jack ___. “We can’t eat them. Come on.”
What is contemptuously?
“The bushes were dark evergreen and ___ and the many buds were waxen green and folded up against the light.”
What is aromatic?
“The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that ___ and windward side were clearly differentiated.”
What is leeward?
“There, where the island ___ out in water, was another island;...”
What is petered?
“This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled ___ among the canopy of the forest.”
What is lavishly?
“The older boys agreed; but here and there among the little ones was the doubt that required more than rational ___.”
What is assurance?
“He stood now, warped out of the perpendicular by the fierce light of publicity, and he bored into the ___ grass with one toe.”
What is coarse?
“Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ___ of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.”
What is ebullience?