Unit 1/2 Vocab Quiz

I found Ernest busily engaged in weaving a basket in which to catch fish; he had devised it "ingeniously", with a funnel-shaped entrance; through which the fish passing would not easily find their way out.

When something is created "ingeniously," it requires

• feeling

• payment

• imagination

• patience

On her work-table were fishing-lines of all sorts, and knives and other tools. These latter she told me were, with a chest of wearing "apparel," almost the only things washed ashore after the wreck.

A chest packed with "apparel" is filled with

• clothing

• books

• jewels

• food

I heard Ernest loudly calling: "Father, father! I've caught a fish! An "immense" fellow he is. I can scarcely hold him, he drags the line so!"

A fish that is "immense" is NOT

• massive

• significant

• large

• small

How can we hope to _______ a city that is surrounded by such strong walls and has ample supplies of everything it needs?

• douse

• denounce

• besiege

• compress

As it was well past their lunchtime by the time we arrived home, the children were ________ and demanded food.

• besieged

• famished

• inept

• irked

As a flock of geese flies away, it does what?

• irks

• forsakes

• recedes

• douses

Another word for annoy is

• irk

• denounce

• dispatch

• recede

If an electronic file has been reduced in size, it has been

• irked

• compressed

• dispatched

• besieged

The beauty of the Grand Canyon is so ________ that it is absolutely impossible to capture its grandeur on film.

• overwhelming
• immense

• insignificant
• small

You had no right to call me a clumsy --- just because I spilled some water on you.

• oaf

• douse

• dispatch

• irk