Princess Bride Vocabulary, Chapter 6, pt. 2

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

It’s like eighty-nine days till the nuptials and every high muckamuck in Florin has to give a ‘do’ for the couple.

• a wedding ceremony

• a funeral mass

• a Christmas party

• the birth of a child

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

He was certainly underground. It was not the lack of windows that made that sure; more the dankness.

• frighteningly foggy

• blindingly blizzarding

• unbearably hot and sweltering

• unpleasantly cool and moist

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

‘It says right here,’ my father began, a little huffy, and he starts going over it again.

‘You must have skipped a page then. Something. Get it right, huh?’

• a little angry

• a little sad

• a little happy

• a little teapot

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

“I feel quite invigorated,” the Count said as he and the Prince began to ascend the underground staircase.

• filled with sorrow and sadness

• filled with shame and remorse

• filled with strength and vitality

• filled with chocolate pudding

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

So each night, the Count’s discomforts, which made Westley writhe and twist, were really sort of all right.

• dance and sing

• twist and contort

• laugh and yell

• search and destroy

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

She went on that way, silent hour after silent hour; she had done nothing else for thirty-eight evenings now, and each time, her ardor deepened, her thoughts became more pure.

• intense love

• intense joy

• intense hatred

• intense sorrow

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

“Are you really as brave as you sound, or are you a little frightened? The truth, please. This is for posterity, remember.”

• all past generations

• all future generations

• all present generations

• all geriatrics

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

The Count was simply in a quandary. So many possibilities, but which would prove, scientifically, most interesting?

• an easy decision between two pleasant choices

• a difficult decision between two pleasant choices

• a difficult decision between two unpleasant choices

• dealer's choice

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

“They tried getting this fencer yesterday, some of the standard enforcers, but it seems he has certain sword skills that made them wary, but I think I have a trick that will work.”

• courageous

• cautious

• terrified

• huffy

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

Choose the best definition for the bold-faced word.

When they were gone, the albino came out, pulled the cups from the corpse, decided to burn the body on the garbage pyre back behind the castle.

• wood heaped for staying warm

• wood heaped for barbecuing

• wood heaped for burning a dead body

• wood heaped for s'mores

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.1