Lord of the Flies Vocabulary: CH 4
whelming engulfing, covering
Example: "They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air..."
blatant brazenly obvious, flagrant
Example: "Strange things happened at midday. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility..."
belligerence an aggressive, stubborn attitude
"...Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence." Example: "...Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence."
chastisement punishment
Example: "In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand."
myriad innumerable
Example: "Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies (baby crabs) came scavenging over the beach."