"By the Great Horn Spoon" Vocabulary Practice

You feel this when you almost give up hope and don't know what else to do.

• lurch

• exotic

• exasperated

• tired

A synonym for "polite" is _______ .

• courteous

• rude

• imperative

• dilemma

You do this if you say that something is better or worse than it really is.

• ration

• imposter

• encounter

• exaggerate

A synonym for this word is "racket" or "noise".

• clamor

• invincible

• cholera

• quiet

If something is ________ , then it comes from a far away and unusual place.

• strange

• exotic

• exasperated

• encounter

I had an _______ with an alien, and I'm sure that no one else has ever done that before.

• encounter

• meeting

• date

• exasperated

Our ship was running out of food, so we had to _______ the food. Each person was only allowed a little food each day.

• eat

• exotic

• petrify

• ration

An ______ is someone who pretends to be something that she isn't.

• liar

• imposter

• rogue

• cholera

This word means "turned to stone", but it can also mean "so scared that you can't move".

• horrified

• ration

• petrified

• terrified

This word means to suddenly lean forward. For example, a ship will do this when a wave pushes it forward.

• lurch

• clamor

• dilemma

• invincible