Vocabulary Quiz

It was hard to say which delicious item on the dessert buffet table was the most ______.

• alluring

• sedate

• pestilent

• impetuous

The rank-smelling water at the bottom of the old well was in a state of ______.

• anachronism

• disdain

• stagnation

• cremation

Three bowls of food every day has made Virginia’s dog, Dodo, more than a little ______.

• sonorous

• anthropomorphic

• insoluble

• corpulent

The doctor used a ______ needle to inject the polio vaccine.

• traumatic

• corpulent

• pestilent

• hypodermic

The film created in most of the audience a bittersweet ______.

• hierarchy

• sentiment

• interrogation

• solace

Discovering the old letters his great-grandmother wrote awoke Jim’s interest in his family’s ______.

• anachronism

• euthanasia

• disdain

• genealogy

Science-fiction writers often create aliens with ______ characteristics.

• sedate

• anthropomorphic

• corpulent

• dormant

The police officer’s words were little ______ to the father of the injured girl.

• disdain

• cognition

• hierarchy

• solace

Circle the letter of the word that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the boldfaced word: dormant.

• lazy

• hard-working

• active

• slow

Choose the word that is a synonym of "traumatic."

• comforting

• disturbing

• confusing

• traveling