Little Women Vocab Test 3 (Ch 8-9 & review 1-7)

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her; and it took years of patient effort to subdue it" (Alcott 93).

• horrible or unpleasant

• falling apart or ruined; run down

• morally excellent

• to conquer or bring under control

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "It was an abominable thing, and she don't deserve to be forgiven" (Alcott 96).

• Great embarrassment and shame

• Horrible or unpleasant

• Magnificent; luxurious

• Morally excellent

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "Jo still looked like a thunder-cloud, and nothing went well all day. It was bitter cold in the morning; she dropped her precious turn-over in the gutter, Aunt March had an attack of fidgets, Meg was pensive, Beth would look grieved and wistful when she got home, and Amy kept making remarks about people who were always talking about being good, and yet wouldn't try, when other people set them a virtuous example" (Alcott 97).

• Disgraceful or shameful

• Morally excellent

• Thoughtful

• Unrelenting; relentless

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: “‘I wish I hadn't smashed my coral bracelet, for you might have had it,’ said Jo, who loved to give and lend, but whose possessions were usually too dilapidated to be of much use” (Alcott 105).

• falling apart or ruined, run-down

• horrible or unpleasant

• morally excellent

• refilled

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "I wish I was going to have a fine time, and wear all these nice things," said Amy, with her mouth full of pins, as she artistically replenished her sister's cushion (Alcott 105).

• conquered or brought under control

• filled with sorrow or guilt

• liveliness of spirit

• refilled

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "It certainly was agreeable to fare sumptuously, drive in a fine carriage, wear her best frock every day, and do nothing but enjoy herself" (Alcott 107).

• falling apart or ruined, run-down

• horrible or unpleasant

• lazily

• magnificently; luxuriously

Choose the correct definition for the word in bold: "Here Meg's partner appeared, to find her looking much flushed and rather agitated. She was proud, and her pride was useful just then, for it helped her hide her mortification, anger, and disgust at what she had just heard; for, innocent and unsuspicious as she was, she could not help understanding the gossip of her friends" (Alcott 109).

• Easily angered; irritable

• Great embarrassment and shame

• Magnificence; luxury

• Turbulent; stormy

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: "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