Wordly Wise Book 8 Lesson 8

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence or answer each question.

Banter is light, playful…

• Conversation

• Eating

• Wrestling

• Singing

Choose the best way to complete each sentence or answer each questions.

To deploy troops is to…

• Recruit them into the armed services.

• Train them for battle.

• Arrange them in battle positions.

• Arrange for them to leave the armed services.

Choose the best way to complete each sentence or answer each questions.

To grapple with a problem is to

• Try to deal with it.

• Discover it.

• Solve it.

• Avoid thinking about it.

Choose the best way to complete each sentence or answer each questions.

A pang is a sudden…

• Inspiration.

• Sharp feeling of pain or distress.

• Change of plans that occurs at the last moment.

• Hailstorm.

Choose the best way to complete each sentence or answer each questions.

The manager deployed three of his best waiters to serve the large party. The manager…

• Put his three best waiters to work serving the party.

• Introduced his three new waiters to the party.

• Trained three new waiters for the job.

• Hired three new waiters the night of the event.

Choose the best way to complete each sentence or answer each questions.

Which of these is azure?

• A glorious sunset

• A cloudless sky

• A mountain meadow

• A forest of pine trees

A synonym for adept is

• Imaginative

• Eager

• Accustomed

• Skilled

A synonym for crucial is

• Fatal

• Vital

• Terrible

• Plausible

A synonym for fastidious is

• Hungry

• Swift

• Lucrative

• Detail-oriented

A synonym for grappled is

• Wrestled

• Spotted

• Mauled

• Devoured