Midterm Practice Quiz

A Pinnacle is...

• A high peak or point

• a lack, scarcity, inadequate supply; a famine

• one who does good to others

• a type of laama

If someone is diffident, they are...

• gallant, civil, valiant

• obsessed with the color blue

• shy, lackng self-confidence, modest and reserved

• unconquerable, refusing to yeild

If you augment something, you are making it...

• angrier

• fall in love

• smaller

• larger

To deploy means to...

• make larger, increase

• to position or arrange, to form up; to station; to organize

• ridicule, deride, or mock

• to pretend to be a fighter jet

Someone who is craven would...

• run away from their problems

• bravely face their problems

• stomp on their problems like godzilla

• never have any problems, because they are perfect

Who is one of the most truculent characters in Beowulf?

• Grendel, because he's so quick to anger

• Beowulf, because he brags so often

• Hrothgar because he's great at giving rings and wealth to his warriors

• The dragon because it can fly

If someone is tentative about swimming they would be most likely to...

• Do a cannon ball off the diving board

• Glare at the water angrily

• dip one toe in the water and pull it out again

• Dive in head first

Punitive means...

• plowed but not seeded

• smaller than an onion

• so important it cannot be disregarded

• inflicting or aiming punishment

redress means...

• to obliterate or erase entirely from existence

• To put on a new outfit

• To set right or remedy

• to disturb, worry; to trouble with repeated attacks

The word that best fits this image is:

• altruistic

• punitive

• insidious

• marshmallow