Vocabulary Quiz

What term is used to describe a person who cannot read or write?

• Tangent

• Barbarian

• Illiterate

• Alien

Which word means to respond critically or sarcastically?

• Retort

• Submission

• Disarray

• Ebb

What does 'melancholy' refer to?

• a feeling of sadness

• lasting for a very short time

• annoying; humiliating

• show great care

Which word describes something that is grand and impressive in appearance?

• Imposing

• Fleeting

• Galling

• Gingerly

What does the term 'fleeting' best describe?

• completely overcome; weak and helpless

• lasting for a very short time

• gradually lessen or reduce

• grand and impressive

A completely different line of thought

• retort

• ebb

• tangent

• fleeting

not familiar or like other things you have known

• ebb

• fleeting

• prostrate

• alien

a person belonging to a tribe or group that is considered uncivilized

• alien

• barbarian

• ebb

• illiterate

What is prostrate?

• gradually lessen or reduce

• the action or fact of accepting or yielding to a superior force

• completely overcome; weak and helpless

• a state of disorganization or untidiness

gradually lessen or reduce

• fleeting

• ebb

• prostrate

• barbarian