V Book 2 Vocabulary

Sneakily dangerous

• Colleagues

• Solemnly

• Pernicious

• Insidious

Which sentence uses transfixed correctly?

• I transfixed my friends.

• I was transfixing my car.

• The images on the screen transfixed him.

• He didn't transfix the fire alarm.

Answer explanation

Transfix means to cause (someone) to sit or stand without moving because of surprise, shock, interest, etc.

What is the correct definition of transfigured?

• disrespectfully

• changed in form or appearance

• miserable and unhappy

• annoyed

Stealing from a friend may cause _________ damage that friendship.

• kleptomaniac

• irrevocable

• angst

• gullible

The photographer said pictures look best if your wear a ______ shirt. This is a shirt that has only one color.

• monolith

• monosyllabic

• monologue

• monochrome

entertainment, plays, movies held in the daytime

• matinees

• midnight

• grungy

• pastel

nonsense, rubbish

• comeuppance
• cattywampus
• malarkey
• nincompoop

a net-like fabric to cover a woman's face

• descend

• veil

• torment

• pledge

evil or dishonest

• Punctilious

• Haughty

• Valour

• Sinister

expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful

• helter-skelter

• galling

• plaintively

• melancholy