Vocabulary and Context Clues Worksheet

I need an (a)   amount of coffee in the morning.

• Profound

• Incremental

• Abundant

• Spontaneous

In the sentence "The driver only caught a fleeting glimpse of the squirrel," what does fleeting mean?

• Clear

• Lasting

• Brief

• Detailed

In the sentence, “Because Roger was always meticulous about his appearance, George was shocked when he showed up for school in dirty clothes,“ what does meticulous mean?

• A. Careless

• B. Extremely careful and precise

• C. Quick and rushed

• D. Disorganized

Katherine does not want to go to field day, so she will have to (a)   an illness.

• Feign

• Correlate

• Bolster

• Befall

In the sentence, “Katherine does not want to go to field day, so she will have to feign an illness,” feign means?

• Perfectly clear

• Completely wrong

• Uncertain or unclear

• Absolutely certain

In the sentence, “In order to find the anomaly, scientists had to repeat the experiment over a hundred times, what does anomaly mean?

• Something typical

• Something expected

• Something normal

• Something unusual

In the sentence, “She was apprehensive about taking the test because she had not studied,” what does apprehensive mean?

• Worried about it

• Happy about it

• Indifferent to it

In the sentence, “If your mother tells you to stop antagonizing your brother, she's asking you to stop making him mad,” what does antagonize mean?

• To help someone

• To praise someone

• To deliberately make someone angry

• To ignore someone

In the sentence, “After the accident, she was coherent and lucid and did not appear to be injured,” what does coherent mean?

• A. Confusing

• B. Disorganized

• C. Clear and logical

• D. Incomplete

In the sentence, “The amount of money a country spends on health care does positively correlate with increased longevity,” what does correlate mean?

• To have no connection

• To oppose each other

• To happen randomly

• To have a mutual relationship