LOTF Vocab Review 1-3

Match the vocabulary to its definition:

• impossible to understand

• hindering

• enthusiasm; excitement

• contrite

• hatred; animosity

• enmity

• slowing progress

• inscrutable

• guilt; regret

• ebullience

Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.

• with deep sincerity

• indignant

• climbing with difficulty

• solemnly

• upset over something unfair

• clambering

• long, angry speech

• tirade

• difficult change in life

• vicissitude

Match the vocabulary word to the correct definition.

• moved; influenced; caused

• contemptuously

• strong desire to do something

• compulsion

• unwilling to accept; doubting

• incredulously

• acting like other people are inferior

• induced

• anxious or fearful

• apprehensive

"I didn't do this!" the child cried ​ (a)   , wiping the tears from his eyes . He felt ​ (b)   about being yelled at even though his sister was the one who made the mess.

• solemnly
• indignant
• induced
• incredulously
• contemptuously
• contrite

The student felt a strong​ (a)   to throw the paper airplane across the room, causing the teacher to deliver a long, angry ​ (b)   about how disrespectful it is to throw things during class.

• compulsion
• tirade
• vicissitude
• ebullience
• hindering
• apprehensive

"How am I supposed to do this math problem?" Annie asked ​ (a)   . She couldn't believe how Mr. Ray could give such an ​ (b)   math problem. No one understood it!

• incredulously
• inscrutable
• induced
• contemptulously
• enmity
• ebullience

"Ummm, why are you talking to us?" the mean girl asked ​ (a)   . She glared with animosity at the outcasted girl, who looking in terror, backed away ​with ​ (b)   steps.

• contemptuously
• apprehensive
• ebullience
• induced
• solemnly
• vicissitude

The word contrite is used when a person feels ​ (a)   .

• guilty
• sad
• frustrated
• lonely
• confused

The word enmity is used when a person feels​ (a)   towards someone else.

• hatred
• happiness
• concern
• interest
• anxiety

The nurse decided to ​ (a)   the pregnant woman's contractions to speed things along. Lack of contractions were ​ (b)   the woman's progress in pushing out the baby, and the nurse was afraid the woman was getting too tired.

• induce
• hindering
• indignant
• clambering
• vicissitude
• compulsion