Ashby's English 4.5 Vocabulary Quiz

you can take a Britisher away from his home for a lifetime and he still remains insular.

Insular means:

• open-minded

• insecure

• narrowly restricted in outlook or scope

Her rimless half-glasses glittered, and the precarious bun on the top of her head trembled as she shook her head.

Precarious means:

• insecure; beset with difficulties

• weird

• safe

Premila followed more sedately, and she told me on the way home never to do that again in front of the other children.

What is the antonym of sedately?

• calmly

• energize

• tranquilize

DEFINE: Inhibit

• To enable

• To limit

• To live

• To think

Jebediah was a(n) _____ man, never changing his ways - never keeping up with the times.

• Diverse

• Insular

• Sedate

• Wizened

After being left on the counter for an hour, Milton's hot chocolate had become _____.

• Emulate

• Insular

• Precarious

• Tepid

The ice cream shop offered a _____ range of flavors to choose from.

• Diverse

• Insular

• Precarious

• Tepid

At 121 years old, Ms. Grisham's skin was so _____ that no amount of medicine would make it as beautiful as it once was.

• Inhibited

• Precarious

• Sedate

• Wizened

The "No Trespassers Allowed" sign will not _____ Bill from entering the junkyard because Bill can't read.

• Diversify

• Inhibit

• Insulate

• Sedate

insular

• dangerously insecure

• narrow-minded or detached from others

• in a calm and dignified manner

• neither hot nor cold; lukewarm