ROTHMC 5-8 Vocabulary Quiz

Rebuked or reminded of one's duty

• Sauntered
• Recoiled
• Pondered
• Admonished

Being at a distance, especially in feeling or interest

• Flinch
• Shunned
• Aloofness
• Sentinels

To stop short and stubbornly refuse to go on

• Shunned
• Caldron
• Balked
• Deflate

Completely puzzled or confused; perplexed

• Recoiled
• Sauntered
• Pondered
• Bewildered

A large kettle or boiler

• Balked
• Candidly
• Pondered
• Caldron

In a frank, outspoken, straightforward way

• Languidly
• Snidely
• Candidly
• Caldron

To depress or reduce someone's ego, hopes, spirits

• Flinch
• Balked
• Deflate
• Retorted

To draw back or shrink from what is dangerous or unpleasant

• Balked
• Deflate
• Flinch
• Snidely

Incapable of being heard

• Candidly
• Inaudible
• Wheedle
• Interminable

Boldly rude or disrespectful

• Snidely
• Morosely
• Inaudible
• Insolently