6th Grade Vocabulary Test #3

Speaking in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds.

• smug

• mere

• drawl

• pried

Having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements.

• spewed

• mere

• deftly

• smug

Deserted of people and in a state of bleak and dismal emptiness.

• vacancy

• concoctions

• desolate

• parched

A large crowd of people especially one that is disorderly

and intent on causing trouble or violence.

• dawdle

• refuge

• spigot

• mob

Soft padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas.

• upholstery

• excavation

• concoctions

• spigot

Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely.

• parched

• refuge

• forlorn

• mere

A mixture of various ingredients or elements.

• pried

• deftly

• concoction

• excavated

Contrary to reason or common sense; utterly absurd or ridiculous.

• defiance

• preposterous

• defiance

• smug

Open resistance to authority or any opposing force.

• grotesque

• concoctions

• upholstery

• defiance

To make a hole or canal by digging.

• desolate

• forlorn

• excavated

• mere