Vocabulary Quiz for The Hobbit Ch. 1-2

A ____ feeling overcame me as though I were in a dream.

• curious

• grim

• precise

• audacious

The ____ reality was that the villagers were out of food.

• curious

• grim

• precise

• audacious

The measurements for a science experiment must be ____.

• curious

• grim

• precise

• audacious

The student was suspended after he ____ a copy of the midterm and posted it online.

• purloined

• incanted

• crossed

• thronged

The witches gathered around their cauldron and muttered ____ to raise the dead.

• purloins

• incantations

• crosses

• throngs

_____ the job was done—the tools were put away, the floor swept, and the construction crew had gone home for the day.

• Apparently

• Precisely

• Audaciously

• Grimly

She always ____ her legs when she sat at the table.

• purloined

• incanted

• crossed

• thronged

I elbowed my way through the ___ that had gathered outside the courthouse.

• curious

• grim

• precise

• throng

The inventor has many bold and daring ideas about transportation, but the most ____ is a high speed train that travels 500 mph.

• curious

• grim

• precise

• audacious

The company ____ provided employees with two weeks of paid vacation per year.

• curious

• policy

• precise

• audacious