Vocabulary Quiz

What does the word "infamous" mean?

• having a bad reputation

• just beginning to exist

• to bump into

• person easily tricked

What does the word "dupe" mean?

• having a bad reputation

• just beginning to exist

• to bump into

• person easily tricked

What does the word "inadvertent" mean?

• having a bad reputation

• just beginning to exist

• to bump into

• unintentional

Upon seeing the snake, the cat began to ______________ with fear.

• tremulous

• cessation

• bristle

• repudiate

What does the word "repudiate" mean?

• a stopping

• to reject, decline

• threatening

• quivering

What does the word "bristle" mean?

• a stopping

• to reject, decline

• to stiffen with fear or anger

• quivering

Which word is a less offensive term for something unpleasant?

• Euphemism

• Mundane

• Incongruous

• Stipulate

What does the idiom "go up in smoke" mean?

• To come to no practical result

• To be very successful

• To catch fire

• To be postponed

The weather outside seemed ______ and did not bode well for the students getting to go to recess.

• bristled

• ominous

• repudiated

• caustic

Students tend to ______ the idea of homework. Which word best fits in the sentence?

• reprimand

• loathe

• caustic

• wrest