The Phantom Tollbooth Daily Vocabulary Quiz

Playful or clever use of words to create humor.

• Wordplay

• Peculiar

• Diction

• Idiom

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.4.2D

Abnormal or different from the usual expectation.

• Ignorance

• Peculiar

• Surreal

• Rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

Accumulated knowledge or learning.

• Wordplay

• Lethargy

• Expectations

• Wisdom

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A state of not knowing; lack of awareness or education

• Surreal

• Ignorance

• Wisdom

• Quest

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

Beliefs or hopes concerning what is possible in the future.

• Expectations

• Humbug

• Lethargy

• Wisdom

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

A boring, gloomy, place, or state of mind, in which nothing happens.

• Humbug

• Darkness

• Ignorance

• Doldrums

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.4

A state of having very low energy with drowsiness and lack of interest or feeling; sloth, indifference, idleness inactivity

• Lethargy

• Humbug

• Corrupts

• Din

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RI.6.4

Killing time is __________ (verbal phrase)

• Wasting time

• Hitting a clock

• Hearing a bell ring

• Daylight savings time

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

Choice of words in speech or writing

• Vocabulary

• Wordplay

• Diction

• Fiction

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

Bizarre, weird, or eerie; having a dream-like quality; beyond real, very strange or unusual.

• Peculiar

• Killing time

• Disputes

• Surreal

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.4.4