Freshmen Honors WOW 21

"My jab elicited laughter from a few of his friends and the other students standing nearby." Ready Player One: A Novel -- The underlined word means:

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• to stop from happening

• to testify

• to lengthen

"He seemed to be trying to muster his thoughts; strange expressions flitted and swam across his face." American Gods -- This sentence is a:

• complex sentence

• compound sentence

• compound-complex sentence

• simple sentence

"make off with belongings of others" -- this definition best matches which word?

• peter

• zeal

• stupor

• pilfer

"Their mother is now a blurry creature, lost in an Ambien-induced stupor." The underlined word is used as a/an:

• verb

• noun

• adverb

• adjective

“Why?” she demanded belligerently, her mouth curling suddenly into a vehement sneer and her eyes flashing with anger." Catch-22 -- The underlined word is used as a/an:

• adjective

• noun

• verb

• adverb

"I’m frightened, but I’m not sure what I’m afraid of, which just exacerbates the fear."

The Girl on the Train -- The underlined word is best defined as:

• to make worse

• to make better

• to take away

• to stop

A synonym for the word peter is:

• fade (away)

• aid

• assist

• build

"He’d been elected to the city council two years before, on his second attempt, and there was rampant talk of a run against the mayor in the next Democratic primary." Native Speaker -- The sentence structure represented here is:

• complex

• compound

• simple

• compound-complex

An antonym for the word tenuous:

• definite

• questionable

• flimsy

• doubtful

"He gathered up dishes from the table and piled them into the sink, scrubbing everything with extraordinary zeal." Among the Hidden -- What is the best definition for the underlined word?

• a feeling of discouragement

• a feeling of strong eagerness

• a feeling of disappointment

• a feeling of resentment