Notes from the Underground Vocabulary Quiz

What is the meaning of the word 'unseemly'?

• a) Unattractive

• b) Unusual

• c) Unpleasant

• d) Unfitting

Which word is an adjective that means 'provided with a particular quality or ability'?

• a) Unseemly

• b) Endowed

• c) Ingratitude

• d) Spite

What sentence correctly uses the word 'endowed'?

• a) Gracie thanked her lucky stars that she was endowed with intelligence and a talent for learning. It made getting a scholarship so much easier for her than for her brother.

• b) He endowed placed the last card onto the top of the house of playing cards like a precise, loving artist.

• c) Jake's dad's eyes bugged out of his head when he saw just how endowed his son's spending had been. How had he gone through that much money in just two weeks?

• d) The endowed of it all struck Susan as comical. She wouldn't have done it, but if Stefan wanted to run around passing out flowers in a chicken costume as an "art" exhibition, who was she to say no?

What is an antonym for the word 'ingratitude'?

• a) thankfulness

• b) ungratefulness

• c) retention

• d) distinction

Which word means 'a feeling of anger or ill will'?

• a) Ingratitude

• b) Spite

• c) Deliberately

• d) Uneconomical

What is the adverb form of the word 'deliberate'?

• a) Uneconomical

• b) Absurdity

• c) Deliberately

• d) Folly

Which word means 'not efficient or cost-effective'?

• a) Retain

• b) Distinction

• c) Tabulate

• d) Uneconomical

What is the noun form of the word 'absurd'?

• a) Absurdity

• b) Folly

• c) Retain

• d) Distinction

Which word means 'a lack of good sense or judgment'?

• a) Ingratitude

• b) Spite

• c) Folly

• d) Deliberately

Which of the following sentences correctly uses the past tense of the word 'retain'?

• a) Alex worked retain his grades in history class.

• b) Tabitha retained her calm even while her sister yelled at her.

• c) Albert tried really hard to reinforce his retaining wall to withstand the flood.

• d) Andrea's retain sheep is in need of some serious veterinary help since it was too young and too small to be sold at auction last spring.