Vocabulary and Story Quiz

serious and immediate danger

• peril

• maligned

• credulity

• avaricious

• furtively

to bring up a topic for discussion

• broach

• prosaic

• apathy

• reverberate

• sinister

lacking poetic beauty; ordinary

• broach

• prosaic

• apathy

• reverberate

• sinister

giving the impression that something harmful or evil is happening or will happen

• broach

• prosaic

• apathy

• reverberate

• sinister

to echo or resound repeatedly

• broach

• prosaic

• apathy

• reverberate

• sinister

lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern

• broach

• prosaic

• apathy

• reverberate

• sinister

spoken about in a spitefully critical manner

• peril

• maligned

• credulity

• avaricious

• furtively

a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true

• peril

• maligned

• credulity

• avaricious

• furtively

in a way that attempts to avoid notice or attention

• peril

• maligned

• credulity

• avaricious

• furtively

having or showing an extreme greed for wealth

• peril

• maligned

• credulity

• avaricious

• furtively