Vocab Revision

            Complete the following sentence selecting the most suitable word.

He ________________ a pebble from the bridge and waited for the plop in the water.

• arranged

• dropped

• shinning

• drifted

You have to treat him _______________, almost make a pet of him, and he will be perfect.

 

• tenderly

• shinning

• doom

• drifting

She __________________herself in her work even during the weekends.

•   immersed

• tenderly

•   doom

• moths

_______________ sang in the trees near them, and a mockingbird mimicked its feathered friends.

•    Cicadas

•     Lichens

• Luminous

• Latticework

The judge refused to allow __________questions.

•   arranging

•   irrelevant

•   overflowing

• cicadas

     Using context clues determine the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence below.

 

-Too much information, or irrelevant info, on screen and our focus blows a fuse. We become disoriented, unmotivated, and unsure of what to do. The zombies win.

• Unrelated to the matter.

• To make someone or something lose a sense of direction.

• a)    To send a group of people to a new place to establish a colony or settlement.

• a)    Things that absorb you occupy your time or attention.

She considers the arranging of flowers in the church to be her own preserve.

• Someone or something that expresses gentle and caring feelings.

• To sort or put something in a particular order.

• A group of tiny plants that looks like moss and grows on the surface of things such as rocks, trees, and walls.

•     The ground which a river flows over.

The water moved silently over moss and lichens covering slabs of rocks and forming small  pools in the low spots.

• a)    To sort or put something in a particular order.

• a)    A group of tiny plants that looks like moss and grows on the surface of things such as rocks, trees, and walls.

• a)    The ground which a river flows over.

• a)    An insect like a butterfly which usually flies about at night.

The valley is wide and marshy, the river frequently overflowing its banks.

• a)    Cutting through the air.

• a)    Flowing over the edges of the container or place it is in.

• a)    Expressing gentle and caring feelings.

• a)    Putting something in a particular order.

In other words, the requirement that the arguments work outside any tradition meant that they were doomed to failure.

•   The act of gripping or seizing, as in wrestling

•    Shinning or glows in the dark.

• A terrible future state or event which you cannot prevent.

• Disappeared.