Vocab 2 Quiz

Running a red light with three previous tickets under your belt certainly shows ______________. And stupidity.

• conceive

• vex

• audacity

• saunter

• intently

If you act ______________, you’re a rebel. On "Everyone Wear Red" Day, you show up _____________dressed in head-to-toe blue, or white, or, well, anything but red.

• audacity

• defiantly

• vexes

• demeanor

• intently

To ___________is to come up with an idea. If you __________a plan for your little brother's birthday, you dream up the perfect party, complete with a magician, rented ponies, and a cake shaped like a rocket.

• stifle

• vex

• conceive

• saunter

• demeanor

_____________is an adjective for anything that's been squashed or smothered. You might have a ___________ambition to be an astronaut that you never admitted to others.

• defiantly

• stifled

• vexed

• futile

• intently

If something __________ you, it brings you trouble or difficulty. In other words, it annoys, worries, distresses, irritates, bothers, or puzzles you

• vexes

• conceives

• defiant

• stifles

• saunter

When something fails to deliver a useful result, you can call it _________. Hopefully all the time you're spending studying vocabulary won't turn out to be _________!

• futile

• vexed

• saunters

• intently

• demeanor

If you're studying something __________, you're probably leaning forward and you're oblivious to whatever is going on around you.

Your attention is focused like a laser.

• vexed

• stifled

• demeanor

• intently

• futule

Your _______________is defined as being either your facial appearance or your behavior. When playing poker, don't let your _______________give away how good your cards are.

• intent

• defiance

• audacity

• demeanor

• vex

Use ______________to describe people who show good humor and are full of joy. Santa Claus, with his constant "ho-ho-hoing" is a ________figure.

• jovial

• saunter

• vex

• audacity

• demeanor

To _______________is to stroll at a leisurely pace. The next time someone accuses you of dragging your feet and asks you to speed it up, calmly tell them that you’re perfecting your _______________.

• vex

• saunter

• demeanor

• futile

• intently