1c+-+English+9+Vocabulary

All definitions from Merriam Webster (m-w.com)
 * **Lord of the Flies: Alphabetically Listed **
 * 1) antagonism: actively expressed opposition or hostility
 * 2) balm: an aromatic preparation (as a healing ointment)
 * 3) barb: a sharp projection extending backward (as from the point of an arrow or fishhook) and preventing easy extraction
 * 4) to bewilder: to perplex or confuse especially by a complexity, variety, or multitude of objects or considerations
 * 5) blatant: completely obvious, conspicuous, or obtrusive especially in a crass or offensive manner
 * 6) blunder: to move unsteadily or confusedly; or, to make a mistake through stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness
 * 7) carcass: a dead body
 * 8) clamor: noisy shouting; or, a loud continuous noise
 * 9) conch: any of various large spiral-shelled marine gastropod mollusks; also its shell use
 * 10) contrite: feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for a sin or shortcoming
 * 11) covert: not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled
 * 12) to cower: to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays
 * 13) crass: gross; especially : having or indicating such grossness of mind as precludes delicacy and discrimination
 * 14) croon: to sing or speak in a gentle murmuring manner
 * 15) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">defile: to make unclean or impure; to corrupt the purity or perfection of
 * 16) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">dung: the feces of an animal
 * 17) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">effigy: an image or representation especially of a person; especially : a crude figure representing a hated person
 * 18) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">to festoon: to hang or form festoons (decorative chains or strips) on
 * 19) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">flaunt: to display ostentatiously or impudently
 * 20) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">frond: a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions
 * 21) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">fulcrum: prop; specifically : the support about which a lever turns
 * 22) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">furtive: done by stealth; surreptitious
 * 23) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">gaudy: ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented
 * 24) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">gesticulate: to make gestures especially when speaking
 * 25) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">grimace: a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain
 * 26) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">hiatus: an interruption in time or continuity : break; especially : a period when something (as a program or activity) is suspended or interrupted <after a 5-year hiatus from writing>
 * 27) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">impalpable
 * 28) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">inarticulate
 * 29) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">incantation (cant)
 * 30) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">incredulously
 * 31) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">indignant
 * 32) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">infuriating
 * 33) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">inscrutable
 * 34) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">interpose
 * 35) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">jeer
 * 36) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">jumble
 * 37) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">leviathan
 * 38) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">malevolent
 * 39) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">mimicry
 * 40) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">mirage
 * 41) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">motif
 * 42) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">multitudinous
 * 43) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">myopia
 * 44) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">nimble
 * 45) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">obscure
 * 46) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">offhand
 * 47) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">officious
 * 48) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">opalescence (efflorescence, phosphorescence, iridescence)
 * 49) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">opaque
 * 50) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">pallor
 * 51) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">pliant
 * 52) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">preposterous
 * 53) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">quiver
 * 54) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">relentless
 * 55) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">sapling
 * 56) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">sagely
 * 57) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">to scavenge
 * 58) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">scornfully
 * 59) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">scowl
 * 60) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">scupper
 * 61) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">sinewy
 * 62) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">smother
 * 63) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">snivel
 * 64) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">specious
 * 65) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">speculate
 * 66) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">stagger
 * 67) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">steadfast
 * 68) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">stifle
 * 69) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">strident
 * 70) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">subdue
 * 71) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">submerge
 * 72) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">subside
 * 73) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">swathe
 * 74) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">taut
 * 75) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">tendril
 * 76) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">thicket
 * 77) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">tirade
 * 78) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">tremulous
 * 79) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">tumult
 * 80) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">uncompromising
 * 81) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">upheaval
 * 82) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">uproarious
 * 83) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">vainly
 * 84) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">vex
 * 85) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">vicissitude
 * 86) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">visualize
 * 87) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">warp
 * 88) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">whimper
 * 89) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">wrench
 * 90) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 110%;">wrest


 * //The Odyssey//, vocabulary ** ||
 * abyss: [n] a deep pit ||
 * ambrosia: [n] the food and drink of the Greek and Roman gods (or, something extremely pleasing to taste or smell) ||
 * appease: [v] to calm or satisfy, especially by meeting demands ||
 * atone: [v] to make amends for; to repent or ask forgiveness (n: atonement) ||
 * beguile: [v] to lead by deception (n: guile) ||
 * compel: [v] to force ||
 * contempt: [n] open disrespect or willful disobedience ||
 * cordial: [adj] warm, sincere, friendly ||
 * deus ex machina: [n] a person or thing (as in fiction or drama) that appears suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty ||
 * disdain: [n] disgust, as for someone or something regarded as inferior (adj: disdainful) ||
 * entreat: [v] to beg, or make an earnest request ||
 * epic poem: [n] a long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary hero ||
 * epithet: [n] a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing ||
 * folly: [n] extremely foolish actions or conduct ||
 * hubris (hybris): [n] exaggerated pride or self-confidence (especially against the gods) ||
 * in media res: [adj] in the middle of things (to describe narrative style) ||
 * muse: [n] a source of artistic inspiration (or the 9 sister goddesses presiding over the arts) ||
 * nymph: [n] beautiful maidens dwelling in the mountains, forest, trees, and waters ||
 * odyssey: [n] a long wandering voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune ||
 * omniscient: [adj] having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight (in narration, a 3rd-person omniscient narrator knows the thoughts and actions of all characters in a work) ||
 * oral tradition: [n] The spoken relation and preservation, from one generation to the next, of a people's cultural history and ancestry, often by a storyteller in narrative form ||
 * pantheon: [n] the officially recognized gods of a people ||
 * plunder: [v] to take others’ goods by force; pillage, sack, or loot ||
 * prevail: [v] to triumph through strength or superiority ||
 * prodigious: [adj] extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree ||
 * rancor: [n] bitter deep-seated ill will ||
 * sage: [n or adj] wise through reflection and experience; or, a wise person ||
 * shroud: [n] a burial garment meant to cover a dead person ||
 * suitor: [n] one who courts a woman and seeks to marry her ||
 * tribulation: [n] a trying situation; distress or suffering ||
 * valor: [n] personal bravery ||


 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">VOCABULARY – List #2, for quiz on 23 / 24 September - quiz format to be posted shortly ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Words to incorporate into formal essays:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">additionally
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">although
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">at any rate
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">certainly
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">consequently
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">convincing
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">eventually
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">evidently
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">explicit(ly)
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">for instance
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">former / latter
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">furthermore
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">generally speaking
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">illustrates
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">implicit(ly)
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">in fact
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">in spite of, despite
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">initially
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">juxtaposition
 * 20) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">merely
 * 21) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">nevertheless, nonetheless
 * 22) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">on the contrary
 * 23) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">opposition
 * 24) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">persuasive
 * 25) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">powerful
 * 26) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">precisely
 * 27) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">presumably
 * 28) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">regardless (of)
 * 29) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">specific(ally)
 * 30) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">still
 * 31) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">therefore
 * 32) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">thoroughly
 * 33) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">thus
 * 34) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to conjure up
 * 35) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to demonstrate
 * 36) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to differentiate
 * 37) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to distinguish
 * 38) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to evoke
 * 39) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to imply
 * 40) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to incorporate
 * 41) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to indicate
 * 42) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to pertain to (avoid ‘is about’)
 * 43) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to portray
 * 44) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to prove
 * 45) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to seem to
 * 46) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to some extent
 * 47) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to substantiate
 * 48) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">undoubtedly
 * 49) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">whereas || From “The Night Face Up”: words in italics will not appear on the vocabulary quiz
 * 50) acolyte
 * 51) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">amulet: a charm (as an ornament) often inscribed with a magic incantation or symbol to aid the wearer or protect against evil (as disease or witchcraft)
 * 52) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">beneficent: doing or producing good; especially, performing acts of kindness and charity
 * 53) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">bivouac
 * 54) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">blunted: made less sharp, definite, or forceful
 * 55) chloroform
 * 56) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">consecrated: inducted (a person) into a permanent office with a religious rite; made or declared sacred
 * 57) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">contusion
 * 58) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">dank: unpleasantly moist or wet
 * 59) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">distasteful: objectionable because offensive to one's personal taste
 * 60) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">fen
 * 61) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">girdle: something that encircles or confines: an article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, or a woman's close-fitting undergarment often boned and usually elasticized that extends from the waist to below the hips
 * 62) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">haft
 * 63) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">lucid: having full use of one's faculties; clear-headed
 * 64) muddled: mixed confusedly
 * 65) oblivion: the fact or condition of forgetting or having forgotten
 * 66) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">opalescent
 * 67) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">pavilion: a usually open sometimes ornamental structure in a garden, park, or place of recreation that is used for entertainment or shelter; also, a large canopy or tent
 * 68) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">rent: (past tense of 'to rend') torn or ripped apart by violence
 * 69) ruddy: having a healthy reddish color
 * 70) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">smock: a light loose garment worn especially for protection of clothing while working
 * 71) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">solace: alleviation of grief or anxiety; a source of relief or consolation
 * 72) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">supplication
 * 73) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">tepid: moderately warm: lukewarm; also, lacking in passion, force, or zest
 * 74) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">cloying: disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess ; also, excessively sweet or sentimental
 * 75) to detach: to separate especially from a larger mass and usually without violence or damage
 * 76) to emboss
 * 77) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to grope: to feel about blindly or uncertainly in search
 * 78) to gurgle
 * 79) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to sabor: to taste or smell with pleasure; to delight in
 * 80) to whir: to fly, revolve, or move rapidly with a whir
 * 81) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">to wrench: to move with a violent twist
 * 82) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">vestibule
 * 83) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">void: opening, gap, empty space
 * 84) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">writhing: twisting the body in pain; also, twisting into coils or folds ||