Bud, Not Buddy-Vocab-Chps. 1-6

Choose the best synonym for vermin.

• faucet

• bully

• pest

• pet

Read the following excerpt from the story and then answer the question.

"What really happened was that I woke up from a good sleep because it felt like a steam locomotive had jumped the tracks and chug-chug-chugged its way straight into my nose."

In the excerpt above, the word locomotive most nearly means

• a car that moves from place to place without any outside power

• traveling from place to place

• an engine that moves from place to place on its own power

• others of that kind, class or sort

Choose the best antonym for brute.

• friend

• grateful

• bully

• light

Read the following excerpt from the story and then answer the question.

"Man! I was on the lam, I was just like Public Enemy Number One. If J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI saw me now I'd be in some real serious hot water!"

In the excerpt above, the word lam most nearly means

• a household in which an orphaned or neglected child is placed for care

• a place where criminals are placed until trial

• captured by the police for breaking the law

• a sudden or hurried flight or escaped from the law

Choose the best antonym for dusky.

• cut

• light

• dark

• escape

Choose the best synonym for ingratitude.

• grateful

• thankful

• pest

• ungrateful

Read the following excerpt from the story and then answer the question.

"I am not the least bit surprised at your show of ingratitude. Lord knows I have been stung by my own people before. But take a good look at me because I am one person who is totally fed up with you and your ilk."

In the excerpt above, the word ilk most nearly means

• small animals that are troublesome or destructive

• others of that kind, class, or sort

• poor ragged children

• children who are ungrateful

Read the following excerpt from the story and then answer the question.

"Right now I was too tired to think anymore so I closed my suitcase, put the proper knots back in the twine, crawled under the Christmas tree and wrapped myself in the blanket."

In the excerpt above, the word twine most nearly means

• a stretchy cord used to hold things together

• a piece of material

• a leather strap used to hold things together

• strong string made of two or more twisted strands

Choose the best synonym for considerate.

• thoughtful

• grateful

• impolite

• thoughtless

Choose the best synonym for urchin.

• leach

• ragamuffin

• beast

• gentleman