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Brave New World Vocabulary Part 1

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
 split into separate parts; divided
a)
aperature
b)
inexorable
c)
pallid
d)
asunder
2.
make up for a mistake
a)
maudlin
b)
atone
c)
parody
d)
reciprocate
3.
Galvanic is 
a)
friendliness
b)
shocking
c)
relentless
d)
lewd
4.
What type of crying might you hear at a funeral?
a)
apoplectic
b)
galvanic
c)
surreptitious
d)
plaintive
5.
Scary movie is a ____________ of the movie Scream.
a)
parody
b)
diadem
c)
simian
d)
aperature
6.
If a wife found out her husband was cheating on her she would become ______________.
a)
inexorable
b)
apoplectic
c)
galvanic
d)
surreptitious
7.
Spies have _______________ meetings with their handlers.
a)
lecherous
b)
ruminating
c)
surreptitious
d)
plaintive
8.
Steel Magnolias is a heart-wrenching movie, whenever I watch it I cry and my husband says it's because I am _____________.
a)
maudlin
b)
quaffed
c)
abject
d)
plaintive
9.
When the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, it __________________ the entire city.
a)
reciprocated
b)
atoned
c)
galvanized
d)
annihilated
10.
_______________ in castle walls were used by archers to protect the keep.
a)
Parodies
b)
Diadems
c)
Aperatures
d)
Solecism
11.
A solecism is 
a)
a narrow opening
b)
complete destruction
c)
primitive person
d)
breach of etiquette
12.
Quaff means
a)
to argue
b)
to embarrass
c)
to drink heavily
d)
to cry mournfully 
13.
lincentious behavior 
a)
intrinsic
b)
lecherous
c)
luminous
d)
innocuous
14.
After she rejected him so callously, Joe wandered off _____________ to find a place to lick his wounds.
a)
abjectly
b)
lecherously
c)
surreptitiously
d)
pallidly
15.
The ocean tides are ________________.
a)
pallid
b)
inexorable
c)
genial
d)
apoplectic