1st Half ''The Lottery'' Vocab Quiz

What does profusely mean? What does it mean to do something profusely?

• To a great degree/a lot

• To do a small degree/with small effort

• Angrily/with resentment

• Joyful/with joy

What does boisterous mean?

• Brash/rude/blunt

• Stubborn

• Uptight

• Noisy/energetic/cheerful

Which sentence is the correct way of using ''profusely'' and ''boisterous''? (More than 1 answer)

• John profusely loves to laugh, it adds to his boisterous personality

• In terms of profusely, a boisterious personality is a sad and quiet tone

• I profusely enjoy being boisterous

• In boisterous, profusely is to be expected

A reprimand is a formal expression of ___?

• A reprimand is a formal expression of praise

• A reprimand is a formal expression of disapproval (Criticism)

• A reprimand is a formal expression of romantic interest

• A reprimand is a formal expression of a requst

Which sentence captures the meaning of ''surveying''?

• Surveying is looking/observing the sunset

• Surveying is a request

• Surveying is to not look closely

What's another word for seizing and holding onto something? To grab something but not intercept it?

• Poking

• Brushing against

• Grasping

• Catching

If John's conducting something, what is he doing?

• John's building something

• John's fixing something

• John's relaxing on the sofa

• John is organizing or directing an activity

How would you properly use hesitate (to doubt) and jovial (to be cheerful) in a sentence free from an oxymorons?

• Zameena's sad and jovial. So I confidently hesitated to speak to her.

• I hesitated to talk to Zameena becuase she's very jovial whereas I'm shy

• To hesitate is the jovial way of conduct

What does it mean to precede and to discard?

• To precede is to come after, to discard is to get rid of

• To precede is to come before, to discard is to keep things

• To precide is to laugh, to discard is to frown

• To precede is to come before, to discard is to throw away

What does perfunctory mean? (Two answers)

• To do something without interest, lack of effort. ''I had done it with a perfunctory attitude''

• To do something joyously. ''I did it with such eagerness and perfunctory!''

• To do something rather lazily or carelessly. ''I threw the ball perfunctorily''

• To do something regretfully. ''With perfunctory, I was saddened by the outcome''