Little Women Vocab Test 2 (Ch 4-7)

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "'If Marmee shook her fist instead of kissing her hand to us, it would serve us right, for more ungrateful wretches than we are were never seen,' cried Jo, taking a remorseful satisfaction in the snowy walk and bitter wind" (Alcott 44).

• Easily angered, irritable
• Filled with sorrow or guilt
• Liveliness of spirit
• Turbulent, stormy

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "This did not suit Jo at all; but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared, and, to every one's surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative" (Alcott 47).

• a feeling of shame or humiliation
• easily angered; irritable
• lazy
• worthy of fear or respect; mighty; illustrious

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "One forlorn fragment of dollanity had belonged to Jo; and, having led a tempestuous life, was left a wreck in the rag-bag, from which dreary poorhouse it was rescued by Beth, and taken to her refuge" (Alcott 49).

• a person's behavior or manners
• a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
• one-eyed giant or monster
• turbulent; stormy

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "She got through her lessons as well as she could, and managed to escape reprimands by being a model of deportment" (Alcott 50).

• a mythical figure that is half man and half horse
• a person's behavior or manners
• a person's face or facial expression
• unrelenting; relentless

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "'Laugh? Not one! They sat as still as mice; and Susie cried quarts, I know she did. I didn't envy her then; for I felt that millions of carnelian rings wouldn't have made me happy, after that. I never, never should have got over such a agonizing mortification.' And Amy went on with her work, in the proud consciousness of virtue, and the successful utterance of two long words in a breath" (Alcott 54).

• a feeling of shame or humiliation
• disgraceful, shameful
• ominous; foreshadowing an event to come
• thoughtful

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "There was color, light, and life in the boy's face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh" (Alcott 68).

• easily angered, irritable
• filled with sorrow or guilt
• lazy
• liveliness of spirit

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "'Hey! Why, what the dickens has come to the fellow?' said the old gentleman, as Laurie came running down stairs, and brought up with a start of surprise at the astonishing sight of Jo arm-in-arm with his redoubtable grandfather" (Alcott 68).

• a person's behavior or manners
• cranky, ill-tempered; full of odd whims
• turbulent; stormy
• worthy of fear or respect; mighty; illustrious

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "Never having known mother or sisters, he was quick to feel the influences they brought about him; and their busy, lively ways made him ashamed of the indolent life he led" (Alcott 73).

• lazy
• thoughtful
• unrelenting; relentless
• worthy of respect; mighty; illustrious

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "During one of the brief calls he made, he artfully led the conversation to music, and talked away about great singers whom he had seen, fine organs he had heard, and told such charming anecdotes that Beth found it impossible to stay in her distant corner, but crept nearer and nearer, as if fascinated" (Alcott 74).

• a feeling of shame or humiliation
• a one-eyed giant or monster
• a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person
• cranky, ill-tempered; full of odd whims

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: All that day passed, and a part of the next, before any acknowledgment arrived, and she was beginning to fear she had offended her crotchety friend. (Alcott 78).

• a mythical figure half man and half horse
• cranky, ill-tempered; full of odd whims
• filled with sorrow or guilt
• liveliness of spirit