Reece - Vocabulary

Which word means 'to sympathize with'?

• jeopardy

• denounce

• commiserate

• fortitude

What is the meaning of 'valor'?

• courage and bravery in the face of danger

• danger, hazard, risk

• a passionate expression of grief or sorrow

• foreboding evil, threatening, of bad omen

Which word describes 'an oppressive and unjust ruler'?

• belligerent

• retribution

• tyrant

• tribulation

What does 'invigorate' mean?

• to prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

• energize, animate, to fill with life and energy

• stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action

• to put down or stop something by force

false, insincere behavior; trick or scheme

• impediment

• ascetic

• myrmidon

• artifice

(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who causes strife

• brackish

• avid

• incendiary

• myopic

Because Dad had come home in one of his _______ moods, we kids hid in our rooms to avoid causing him to blow up.

• incendiary
• aloof

• toil

• ominous

Matthew ate never participated in any of the arguments, showing no interest in what his friends were fighting about. He was:

• obstinate

• corrupt

• aloof

• ignorant

The cow would not leave the road no matter how much the farmer tried to coerce it. The cow was:

• manipulated

• abolished

• corrupt

• obstinate

angry and aggressive

• acquiesce

• belligerent

• precipitous

• malign