8th Grade Sadlier Unit 13 Quiz

A synonym for disdainful is

• haughty

• dovetail

• enormity

• foreboding

To take an illness in order to avoid work is to

• simper

• malinger

• plunder

• falter

A family that has adjusted from living in the country to life in the big city has

• dovetailed

• attested

• adapted

• malingered

If a baseball team's skills are generally spoken about in a confident and swaggering way, they are

• plundered

• vaunted

• vilified

• adapted

An antonym for inconstant is

• plunder

• malinger

• steadfast

• waif

A silly, forced smile can be called a

• simper

• plunder

• waif

• dovetail

Which of the following is another word for immensity?

• foreboding

• impediment

• enormity

• imperative

If someone makes a clever but grim joke, they are being

• vaunted

• wry

• simper

• faltered

Which of the following is the opposite of glorify?

• falter

• attest

• loiter

• vilify

If an actor were to lose courage while performing, he would be

• dovetailing

• faltering

• malingering

• attesting