Vocabulary Quiz 5: flect, flex

A bulletproof vest is designed to do this to a bullet to protect police officers and military personnel.

• flexor

• reflect

• deflect

• inflexible

It is important for ballet dancers to be this.

• inflexible

• flexible

• circumflex

• reflections

Your arms and legs have these muscles to allow bending movements.

• flexor

• circumflex

• retroflex

• reflective

Name the angle that bends all the way back beyond the angle of a straight line.

• circumflex

• reflex

• inflective

• retroflex

Something that is bent or turned backward is in what physical state?

• retroflex

• inflexibility

• reflections

• deflect

Books on tape always use readers who show this in their voices.

• reflexing

• inflexibility

• reflexes

• inflection

When making a solar cooker, it is important to figure out how to do this to the sun to melt the cheese on your nachos.

• reflect

• deflect

• circumflex

• flexible

Your wrist is able to do this pretty well.

• circumflex

• inflex

• reflex

• deflect

People who have a hard time in yoga classes can be described as this.

• inflexible

• flexible

• circumflex

• deflect

Did you see how that mirror bent the light to show the image clearly? What was seen?

• inflexibility

• flexor

• reflex

• reflection