The House of Usher Vocabulary Quiz

What is the meaning of the word, Tumultuous?

• destroy utterly; obliterate.

• the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages.

• making a loud, confused noise; uproarious

• a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.

What is the meaning of the word, Rending?

• tear (something) into two or more pieces.

• making a loud, confused noise; uproarious

• destroy utterly; obliterate.

• the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages.

What is the meaning of the word, Dissolution?

• tear (something) into two or more pieces.

• making a loud, confused noise; uproarious

• destroy utterly; obliterate.

• the closing down or dismissal of an assembly, partnership, or official body

What word means, a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth?

• Fissure

• Rending

• Dissolution

• Annihilate

What word means, the ancient past, especially the period before the Middle Ages?

• Rending

• Antiquity

• Tumultuous

• Annihilate

What word means, destroy utterly; obliterate?

• Rending

• Antiquity

• Tumultuous

• Annihilate

Which sentence is correct?

• Annihilate was what the bomb did to Hiroshima.

• The enemy troops were annihilated.

Which sentence is correct?

• Ahead lay a large fissure in the ice, three feet across.

• I fissured it out!

Which sentence is correct?

• The dissolution was not solved today.

• A divorce or dissolution of marriage can be a harsh process.

Which sentence is correct?

• My grandparents are so antiquity.

• A rare relic of great antiquity must be preserved in a museum.