Veldt Vocabulary Study Guide

“…lions clustered at a distance, eating with great relish whatever it was they had caught.”

What does relish mean in this sentence?

• a condiment put on hot dogs with pickles or green tomatoes

• with great excitement

• disgust

• ferocity

“ ‘All about Africa and everything,’ said the father with false joviality.”

What does joviality mean in this sentence?

• grumpiness

• anger

• sadness

• joyfulness

“Won’t the shock be too much for the children, shutting the room up abruptly?”

What does abruptly mean in this sentence?

• calmly

• with hesitation

• suddenly

• quickly

“They both stood appalled at the other’s reaction.”

What does appalled mean in this sentence?

• saddened

• humorous

• shocked in a disgusted way

• shocked in relieved way

“We’ve been contemplating our mechanical, electrical navels for too long.”

What does contemplating mean in the sentence?

• forgetting

• creating

• thinking about

• ignoring

“Reluctantly he locked the huge door.”

What does Reluctantly mean in the sentence?

• right away

• with hesitation

• quickly

• bravely

“If you intersperse this Africa with a little variety- oh, Sweden perhaps, or Denmark or China.”

What does intersperse mean in this sentence?

• cut apart

• scatter among or between

• stay together

• come back together

“What fun for everyone…when you felt like a quick jaunt to a foreign land.”

What does jaunt mean in this sentence?

• trip

• fight

• crawl

• movie

“Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room.”

What does the word conceived mean?

• bought

• destroyed

• created

• warned against

Neurosis

• a minor mental illness related to stress

• something produced or expressed, such as heat from a fire or anger from a person

• to cause something to respond

• to move backward