Word Knowledge and Skills #10

Many people love going to the ocean.

What is the opposite of love?

• smile

• begin

• hate

In England, a rescue greyhound named Jasmine made the news for a surprising reason.  Jasmine acted as a surrogate mother to more than fifty orphaned baby animals, including fox cubs, badger cubs, guinea pigs, and rabbits.

What does surrogate mean?

• holding an honorary title

• maintaining strict discipline

• acting in place of another

We use barrels to collect __________ during storms.

• rainwater

• oatmeal

• powder

• lightning

Maybe the television isn’t working because the ____________ is loose.

• chain

• plug

• bandage

• electricity

At the school art show, students ____________ their work.

• resolved

• cultivated

• displayed

• processed

The pack animals on our mountain trip were mules and _____________.

• chambers

• purses

• llamas

• masks

Dad’s workshop is down in the ___________ of our house.

• cellar

• building

• tunnel

• tools

My uncle will never play the piano unless my mother ____________.

• insists

• defends

• musician

• measures

The basketball was flat, so they needed to __________ it before they could play.

• inflate

• trump

• fortify

• curdle

My father made this wood table from a piece of __________.

• pipe

• stone

• oak

• rock