Hoot Vocabulary Quiz

What does 'leniency' mean?

• having to do with coins, currency of the supply of money

• state of reacting with mercy or responding with mild judgment

• destruction of property

• to lie in wait and attack

• to leap over, especially by using hands on a barrier or a pole

What does 'reconnaissance' mean?

• to leap over, especially by using hands on a barrier or a pole

• to lie in wait and attack

• having to do with coins, currency of the supply of money

• destruction of property

• a study of a place or of an enemy’s position

What does 'ambush' mean?

• having intent to harm

• destruction of property

• having to do with coins, currency of the supply of money

• to leap over, especially by using hands on a barrier or a pole

• to lie in wait and attack

What does 'vandalism' mean?

• having to do with coins, currency of the supply of money

• to leap over, especially by using hands on a barrier or a pole

• to lie in wait and attack

• destruction of property

• having intent to harm

Match the following words with their definitions.

• causing fear or dread

• malicious

• with alarm or in disorder

• intimidated

• of or like tendons attached to muscles

• perturbed

• having intent to harm

• formidable

• afraid, cowed by threats

• sinewy

Use your vocabulary list to fill in the blank.

My mother looked at me ________ when she saw that I had broken her favorite vase.

Choose the correct spelling.

• surveillance

• servailance

• survellance

• surveilance

Use your vocabulary list to fill in the blank.

Out of the corner of my eye, I could see my best friend waiting to ______ me with the latest gossip.

If you were feeling pouty and upset, you might say you were​ (a)  

• disgruntled
• sarcastically
• malicious
• intimidated
• formidable
• truancy
• nonchalantly

Choose the correct spelling.

• reconaisance

• reconnaissance

• recconnisance

• reeconaissance