Vocabulary Caught' Ya #26-31

ambled

• strict disciplinarian

• enemy

• smart

• walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace

tresses

• hair

• long locks or curls of hair

• give a hard time

• door

color black

• ebony

• nemesis

• portal

• sagacious

According to the following sentence, what does the word pulchritudinous mean

"Sam is in love with the pulchritudinous girl."

• smart

• odious

• horrible

• beautiful

When you nervously move about or start twitching is

• fidgeting

• walking casually

• being comely

• being nervous

"He spied the comely girl who sat shyly in the third row of desks."

The word comely as is used in this sentence means

• nemesis

• curly hair

• attractive

• extremely angry

Pauline incurred in the wrath of the homeroom teacher, Mr. Math Martinet.

What is the definition of the word wrath as it is used in the sentence?

• extreme happiness

• being very smart

• extreme anger

• complained to other

What are the meanings of the underlined words:

The student maliciously lobbed a slimy spit towards his classmate behind the teacher's back.

• portal, door

• enemy, sagacious

• attractive, smart

• cruelly, tossed

The students whimpered as the teacher was passing out the test. They were not happy.

What does the word whimpered means as it is used in the sentence.

• complained

• intentionally

• smart

• shyly

What does the word nemesis mean as it is used in the following sentence?

Kara was not happy when her nemesis won the contest.

• sagacious

• enemy

• lively

• jocose