Number the Stars Vocabulary Ch 1-8

extreme contempt or disgust for something or somebody

• disdainfully

• sneering

• ruefully

• dismay

What word means not done with confidence?

• ration

• intricate

• tentative

• disdainful

The act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so that it does not work is ___.

• intricate

• sabotage

• ration

• disdainful

Which of the following items would NOT describe rueful?

• apologizing for upsetting someone

• a sad expression

• glad to get home after a long trip

• losing a championship

What word means arrogant, bossy, or behaving like someone who is a supreme ruler?

• imperious

• apparently

• ration

• sabotage

What word means a complex design or pattern?

• sabotage

• rueful

• intricate

• imperious

a fixed and limited amount of something, especially food, given to somebody, especially during a time of shortage or war

• obstinate

• tentatively

• rationed

• relocate

What word is NOT a synonym for intricate?

• complicated

• complex

• sophisticated

• simple

When something is done without confidence, it is done tentatively.

• true

• false

If something is intricate, it has many parts.

• true

• false