Noughts and Crosses Two. Callum

threadbare has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• tested

• tattered

• tailored

• tamed

hovel has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• tome

• shanty

• genre

• skiff

incentive means:

• angular distance above the horizon

• the relative magnitudes of two quantities

• interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

• an additional payment as a means of increasing output

malicious has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• spiteful

• strange

• pathetic

• rugged

If you're __________, you're self-possessed and in full control of your faculties. You're balanced, grounded, and ready for action.

Wanting what someone else has and resenting them for having it is _________. If your best friend comes to school with the silver backpack you'd had your eye on all summer, you want to be happy for her, instead you feel bitter _________.

Together, the whole system of racial segregation was known as "Jim Crow."

In the sentence above, segregation has the same or almost the same meaning as:

• indoctrination

• separatism

• economics

• development

He saw the water carrier enter through the bamboo gate, heard the water ________ about jerkily as the servant emptied his goatskin.

• slosh

• nibble

• banish

• punch

The spirit of the place infected me; I could not even think consecutively; I was fit only for musing and ________, when at last, like the rest, I fell asleep.

• protocol

• criterion

• reverie

• propensity

If you don't notice or aren't aware, then the adjective __________ applies to you.