Communications 11/12

Your body bios are due next Thursday, May 10th.  You will also have a vocabulary test on the 30 terms from Chapters 1-6 of Lord of the Flies, which are as follows:

1. effulgence: brightness or a brilliant light radiating from something
2. clambering: climbing with difficulty
3. enmity: extreme ill will or hatred that exists between enemies
4. contemptuously: behaving as though other people are inferior or useless
5. astern: positioned behind a boat
6. smart: to feel a stinging pain
7. conspiratorial: two or more people joining together for an immoral reason
8. indignant: being upset over something that is unfair
9. recrimination: accusing someone who has previously charged you with wrongdoing.
10. festooned: decorated with a string or garland
11. inscrutable (adj): impenetrable
12. heed (v): to pay careful attention to something
13. vicissitudes (n): unexpected changes or conditions
14. contrite (adj): feeling sorrow or regret
15. tacit (adj): implied or believed without being spoken aloud
16. furtive (adj): secret or hidden
17. loom (v): to appear in shadowy form; to hover in a threatening manner; to seem to be on the verge of happening
18. discount (v): to ignore or to doubt
19. detritus (n): any disintegrated material or debris
20. malevolently (adv): doing something with ill will or intent
21. atavistic (adj): characterized by reverting back to something ancient or primitive
22. taboo (adj):  forbidden; something that goes against the standards of a society
23. sinewy (adj):  lean and muscular
24. reverence: a deep feeling of respect
25. lamentation: an audible expression of deep grief and sorrow
26. mimicry: the act of imitating someone’s speech or behavior
27. emphatic: strongly expressive in speech or action
28. diffidently: lacking confidence in one’s own ability
29. leviathan: anything of immense size and power
30. mutinously: with a feeling of rebellion