Vocabulary Quiz

Select a word or phrase to replace the underlined.

After the very tiring and busy conference, I enjoyed the loneliness of my hotel room.

• Solitude

• Leisure

• Solstice

Trying to get anything past mother is a fatal endeavour.

• Challenging

• Dangerous

• Unfair

The place was so terrible a menacing dread came over me.

• Sadness

• Exhaustion

• Fear

She threw him into the puddle on purpose.

• purposefully

• deliberately

• deliberating

Our entire day was a dismal waste of time.

• lazy

• terrible

• depressing

At the sound of the door creaking she lay palsied with fear in bed.

• paralysed

• shaking

• crying

The story is about spectral beings.

• people with spectacles

• ghosts

• aliens

The dimly luminous tunnel was our only way out.

• slightly bright

• very sunny

• a little dark

The giant's immense size dwindled with the impact of the spell.

• grew

• reduced

• changed colour

I was punished when the teacher asked me a question that interrupted my dreamy contemplation.

• serious thought

• daydreaming

• slumber