All 3 Uses of
inscrutable
in
Lord of the Flies
- Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.†
p. 49.5 *inscrutable = impossible to understand
- The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit.†
p. 56.5
- Jack watched him inscrutably through his paint.†
p. 177.8
Definition:
impossible to understand -- often when finding a person's facial expression or comments mysterious