Antaeus Vocabulary Review

What does flourish mean?

• low wall around the edge of a roof or platform

• with a lot of color

• unemotional

• to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way

What does thrust mean?

• to push with force

• to be judged with attitude more than by words

• to grow very quickly

• to understand by only a small group of people

What does it mean to be petered out?

• to wobble

• to tend to a crop for the last time before harvesting

• to quit or stop

• to have very little color

What is the meaning of parapet?

• where vegetables are grown for market

• low wall around the edge of a roof or platform

• to be a sharecropper and share crops with a land owner

• a movable model of person or animal that is controlled by strings or by a hand inside it

If a person is stolid, they are...

• very happy and excited

• very sad and discouraged looking

• quite unemotional

• really hyper and emotional

If something is inert, it is...

• shaky and wobbly

• flying through the air

• sinking as in water

• very still and unmoving

If someone is stocky, they are...

• tall and slender

• big guy like Shaq O'Neal

• solid, thick, and short

• about medium build

A person who is resolute is...

• meek and quiet-spoken

• shy and timid

• loud and obnoxious

• determined, set in purpose or opinion

What is a person's domain?

• land that a person would like to own but cannot own

• land that a person rents but does not own

• land that person owns, rightful territory

• land that is being sold to someone else

Something that is vacant is...

• empty, unoccupied

• full and occupied

• half-empty

• a long but fun trip