Words and Meaning Vocabulary Practice

What does the Complimented mean?

• to give someone praise

• good

• excellent

• to beg

What does the word splendid mean as it is used in this sentence?

The weather today is 87 degrees, it is sunny and splendid.

• hopeless a great amount, abundant

• excellent, wonderful

• to pay attention, take notice of, or listen

What is the meaning of bore as used in the sentence below?

I don't like doing homework, I know that it will bore me.

• calm

• tire

• excite

• help

What is the meaning of greets as used in the sentence below?

He greets me at the doorway each day when I come home from school.

• barks

• catches

• welcomes

• surprises

What is the meaning of pronounce as used in the sentence below?

Dr. Seuss used rhyming words because he thought it helped kids pronounce words correctly.

• to define

• to spell

• to say

• to learn to write

The baby rabbits were in a heap or pile.

What is the meaning of heap?

• a pile

• a tree

• a bed

• a nest

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When the cat wants inside, he will paw at the door.

• An animal's foot
• To scratch or hit

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The campers made a fire to cook their hot dogs.

• Burning to produce heat, light, and flames
• Tell someone they lost a job
• Put into a kiln to make (pottery) hard

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The farmer added a final post to the fence.

• To list something for others to view
• To mail something
• A wooden pole

After his mother's death, Joyce lived in exile, which means that he lived away from his home country.

Choose the best definition for exile.

• the state of being away from one's home

• a commune for writers and artists

• a rural city in Ireland

• a condition characterized by sadness and anger