Glossary

Glossary

1. Contrite: feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

Ex. Simon's contrite face appeared in the hole.

2. Frond: compound leaf of a fern or palm 

Ex.  When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.

3. Disinclination: a certain degree of unwillingness

Ex. There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor.

4. Swathe: wrap in swaddling clothes

Ex. Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar.

5. Creeper: a long plant that grows along a surface (ex. the ground, or up walls or trees)

Ex.Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

                   

6. Pinch(Slang): to steal, or take without asking

Ex. "You pinched Piggy’s specs...you've got to give them back"