1. Lord of the Flies
Vocabulary: CH 3

2. avidly
eagerly

3. Example:
"Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him again and he searched the ground avidly."

4. inscrutable
not easily understood

5. Example:
"Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail."

6. vicissitudes
difficulties or hardships

7. Example:
"Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting."

8. contrite
sincerely sorry for shortcomings

9. "Simon's contrite face appeared in the hole.
Example:
"Simon's contrite face appeared in the hole.
‘Sorry.’ ”

10. compulsion
irresistible impulse or force

11. Example:
"He [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up."