Vocabulary Quiz

A beach that has been worn away by the wind and waves can be described as

• casual

• eroded

• melancholy

• downtrodden

To give formal approval to is to

• ratify

• stifle

• flounder

• entice

Which of the following is the opposite of saturate?

• accelerate

• parch

• persist

• canvass

If someone’s enthusiasm has been suppressed, it has been

• quibbled

• floundered

• stifled

• eroded

Which of the following might be another word for essential?

• regal

• gruesome

• vital

• graphic

Someone who looks on or observes can be called a(n)

• bystander

• quibble

• melancholy

• ordeal

Which of the following could not be used to replace melancholy (sentence 2)?

• gloomy

• dejected

• unhappy

• merry

In sentence 2, ordeals means

• diseases

• pranks

• hardships

• pleasures

Which of the following words could be used to replace gruesome (sentence 2)?

• ghastly

• appealing

• delightful

• dull

In sentence 5, graphic means relating to

• history

• earth science

• the pictorial arts

• mathematics