Charles: Vocabulary

Read this sentence: They said to renounce littering because it is bad for our environment.

Renounce means-

• watch

• allow

• reject

• practice

Read this sentence: The lady made an elaborate dress with beads and silk.

Elaborate means-  

• detailed

• plain

• boring

• pretty

Read this sentence: We regard our school band as the best band in the state.

Regard means-  

• declared

• thought

• watched

• played

Read this sentence: My friend and I said “Okay” simultaneously.

Simultaneously means-  

• at different times

• confusingly

• quickly

• at the same time

Read this sentence: I solemnly told my sister to stop.

Solemnly means-  

• quickly

• seriously

• quietly

• playfully

Read this sentence: The boy said heartily to his classmate “you are cool”.

Heartily means-  

• quickly

• friendly

• quietly

• playfully

Read this sentence: The third week of kindergarten, Charles was an institution in our family; the baby was being a Charles when she cried all afternoon; Laurie was being a Charles when he filled his wagon full of mud and pulled it through the kitchen.

Institution means-  

• routine

• name

• buzz

• place

Read this sentence: During the third and fourth weeks it looked like a reformation in Charles. “Charles was so good today, that the teacher gave him an apple.”

Reformation means-  

• chance

• horror

• habit

• change

Read this sentence: The boy incredulously said, “I am not doing my homework!”

Incredulously means-  

• quietly

• selfishly

• unwillingly

• quickly

Read this sentence: At the meeting I sat restlessly, scanning each comfortable matronly face, trying to determine which one hid the secret of Charles.

Matronly means-  

• harshly

• motherly

• sorrowfully

• quietly