Chapter 14-23 Vocabulary

"I raised myself on my elbow the better to listen, trying to still the thudding in my eardrums which prevented my hearing." Which of the following choices is a synonym for prevented?

• impede
• amiable
• morose
• quiescent

Nathan especially was in a joyful mood. Which of the following choices is a synonym for joyful?

• quiescent
• ludicrous
• malignant
• exuberant

Not even the evil power of Kunthi could rouse me.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for evil?

• exuberant
• malignant
• quiescent
• ludicrous

Then it struck me as ridiculous that at this late stage I should walk with caution.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for ridiculous?

• ludicrous
• exuberant
• perilously
• malignant

I was beginning hotly when he began to laugh, grinning widely so that the lines of his face were somehow lost in the creases of laughter, making him look young and friendly.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for friendly?

• morose
• impede
• amiable
• ludicrous

The memory of those days was ever with me, yet the passing of time had made it inactive; now my own words brought it savagely alive with a shrill, stabbing pain that swept the words away.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for inactive?

• quiescent
• malignant
• exuberant
• ludicrous

But for us, who lived by the green, quiet fields, dangerously close though these were to the town, nature still gave its muted message.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for dangerously?

• ludicrous
• malignant
• exuberant
• perilously

Ira accepted [the gifts] in his name, smiling, graceful as ever, unconcerned or worried.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for unconcerned?

• unperturbed
• quiescent
• exuberant
• perilously

During the preparations, while the site was bought and cleared, and a contractor engaged to find men and material, he spent his time with Kenny, and what they discussed I do not know, but sometimes he came home elated and sometimes he was sullen and ill-tempered and dejected.  Which of the following choices is a synonym for sullen and ill-tempered?

• perilously
• morose
• amiable
• impede

For hunger is a curious thing: at first it is with you all the time, waking and sleeping and in your dreams, and your belly cries out insistently, and there is a gnawing and a pain as if your very vitals were being devoured, and you must stop it at any cost, and you buy a moment's relief even while you know and fear the sequel. Which of the following choices is a synonym for relief?

• morose
• amiable
• respite
• impede