Vocab 5 Quiz

What does "bilk" mean?

• a feeling of uneasiness

• to cheat or swindle

• a carton of milk

• a storehouse for grain

What is another name for a sermon, or moving speech?

• homily

• granary

• qualm

• lampoon

Failing to look both ways when crossing a busy street may lead to your untimely ___________________.

• impede

• aghast

• demise

• death

Which word means "to send out, to give forth as in sound or light"?

• emit

• choleric

• eradicate

• shine

What does "decadence" mean?

• a sermon

• to make up a story

• moral deterioration

• positive outlooks

Serena was ________________ that Blair would suggest spreading a rumor so horrible about the new girl at school.

• bilked

• narcissistic

• emit

• aghast

What word means "a storehouse for grain"?

• lampoon

• grainhouse

• granary

• ghastly

What does "choleric" mean?

• easily angered

• a written satire

• to wipe out or destroy

• sickly

Refusing to do any homework will certainly ________________ your ability to get a good grade in class.

• impede

• hinder

• demise

• lampoon

Shaggy and Scooby had a lot of __________________ about entering the spooky castle alone.

• lampoons

• qualms

• homilies

• bilks