| Efflorescence | Developing and unfolding as if into a flower, blossoming |
| It is time for the flowers to begin efflorescence. | Efflorescence sentence |
| Enmity | Extreme hatred or ill will between enemies, hostility |
| There is a long history of enmity between them. | Enmity sentence |
| Ebullience | Lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings, exuberance |
| Her natural ebullience began to return after she did well in her exams. | Ebullience sentence |
| Chorister | Singer in chorus or choir |
| The choristers sang the religious songs without accompaniment. | Chorister sentence |
| Decorous | Marked by propriety and good taste |
| We were asked to be on our most decorous behavior at the formal event. | Decorous sentence |
| Bastion | Something providing strong defense or support or a place where there are such people, a fortified place |
| The rebel army retreated to its bastion in the mountains to regroup. | Bastion sentence |
| Hiatus | A break in or as if in a material object, gap |
| Recriminate | To accuse somebody who has already brought an accusation |
| The meeting ended with bitterness and recrimination. | Recriminate sentence |
| Tumult | Disorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices, commotion, riot |
| They had to shout to be heard over the tumult. | Tumult sentence |
| Tirade | A long, angry speech, usually of criticism or denunciation |
| The coach directed a tirade at the team after the loss. | Tirade sentence |
| Oppressive | Unreasonably burdensome, severe, depressing |
| This region suffers from oppressive heat in the summertime. | Oppressive sentence |
| Inscrutable | Mysterious, not expressing anything clearly, hard to interpret |
| He was a quiet, inscrutable man. | Inscrutable sentence |
| Vicissitudes | Being changeable, event occurring by chance, difficulty beyond one’s control |
| They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 50 years. | Vicissitudes sentence |
| Declivities | Something sloping, downward inclination |
| The cabin was carefully built on a declivity of the mountain’s northern face. | Declivities sentence |
| Tacit | Understood or implied without being stated openly |
| She felt that she had her parents’ tacit approval to borrow the car. | Tacit sentence |
| Blatant | Noisy, completely obvious or obtrusive in an offensive manner |
| He showed a blatant disregard for the safety of other drivers. | Blatant sentence |
Lord of the Flies Vocab
February 9, 2020