Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz

What is the definition of "tirade"?

• a long, angry speech

• a deep and full echoing sound

• to stay in place and focus on a task for a period of time

• causing or capable of causing death

What does it mean to "hunker down"?

• able to survive under a variety of conditions

• to share private or secret information

• to stay in place and focus on a task for a period of time

• to surround or cover to prevent the passage of heat, electricity, or sound

What is the synonym of "deplete"?

• confess

• infer

• drain

• fatal

What is the definition of "lethal"?

• a superior, partially suppressed laugh

• causing or capable of causing death

• a state of personal closeness that is usually experienced in privacy

• stopping for a time, only to begin again later

What does it mean to "relish" something?

• to take great joy or pleasure in something

• a system in which conflicting or competing forces are at work

• to pacify or lesson the anger of, usually by making compromises

• a long, angry speech

What is the synonym of "appease"?

• rant

• confess

• soothe

• infer

What is the definition of "intimacy"?

• a deep and full echoing sound

• to take great joy or pleasure in something

• a state of personal closeness that is usually experienced in privacy

• hostile, unfriendly or bad-tempered

What word is defined as "a system in which conflicting or competing forces are at work"

(a)  

What word is the synonym of "resentful"

• cloying

• teeming

• surliness

• sated

What part of speech is the word "teeming" labeled as?

• noun

• verb

• adjective

• adverb