1. Lord of the Flies
Vocabulary: CH 4

2. whelming
engulfing, covering

3. Example:
"They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air..."

4. blatant
brazenly obvious, flagrant

5. Example:
"Strange things happened at midday.  The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant 
impossibility..."

6. belligerence
an aggressive, stubborn attitude

7. "...Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence."
Example:
"...Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence."

8. chastisement
punishment

9. Example:
"In his other life Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand."

10. myriad
innumerable

11. Example:
"Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies (baby crabs) came scavenging over the beach."