3-5 Flex/Flect Vocabulary Quiz

A flexor is

• a skeletal muscle

• a blood cell

• a bone

To deflect something is to

• knock on it

• turn aside and away from

• go under

Flex means

• to move or tense

• to lift up

• contact

Reflect means

• be straight

• overdo

• to show an image

Which of these would not be reflective?

• light on a surface

• a delicious lunch

• thinking things through

Flexibility means

• fast and strong

• easily bent or shaped

• pattern of stress

A circumflex is found

• on a circle

• in a church

• above a vowel

Another word for retroflex is

• bent

• shaped

• muscle

If you genuflect, you are

• in charge

• reading

• kneeling

10. The lake's surface was very _______________ at night and it looked like there were two moons shining.

• reflective

• shimmering

• sparkling

• radiant