All 3 Uses of
tacit
in
Lord of the Flies
- Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool.
p. 55.3tacit = unspoken
- 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.
p. 65.2tacitly = understood, but not expressed directly
- Tacitly admitting that he remembered the unmentionable, Ralph nodded to Piggy.
p. 86.6 *tacitly = in an indirect manner (without directly saying it)
Definition:
implied or understood, but not expressed directly