WorksheetsSophomore WOW 4
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 28mins
But it was really not true that Okonkwo’s palm-kernels had been cracked for him by a benevolent spirit.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
The underlined word best means:
Characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings;desiring to help others
Causing harm or damage.
Obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.
It was right to do it, it was kind to do it, it was benevolent to do it, and he would do it again.
Dickens, Charles -- Great Expectations
What sentence structure is our word found in?
Parallel
Compound
Complex
SImple
Miss Maudie’s benevolence extended to Jem and Dill,
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Verb
Adverb
Noun
adjective
It’s deleterious to a basic human love of life—let me explain what I mean.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
A SYNONYM for the underlined word is:
harmful
eliminating
irregular
wonderful
And weight carried around the middle is more deleterious than extra pounds in the butt.
Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
Verb
And weight carried around the middle is more deleterious than extra pounds in the butt.
Holly Goldberg Sloan -- Counting by 7s
What sentence structure best fits the stentence/
Parallel
Compound
Compound vs. Complex
Adverb
For a moment, he stared at her in blank stupor; she saw the struggle of fear, obsequiousness and hatred in his filmy eyes.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
What part of speech is the underlined word.?
Noun
Adverb
Adjective
Verb
The priests approach them, carrying torches, their shaggy white heads bent, obsequious.
John Gardner -- Grendel
The underlined word best means:
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
characterized by or expressing goodwill or kindly feelings;desiring to help others
showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense
deviating from the recognized or customary character
Which sentence IS NOT a complete sentence (Fragment).
Although he had no friends he was welcomed by his obsequious class-mates and took up a natural and cold position of leadership in the schoolyard.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
The most obsequious and subservient to the will and passions of their master.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver’s Travels
His usual hostility had been replaced with a slimy obsequiousness.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
The doctor, flattered at this unexpected title, launched out into obsequious phrases.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
There was a noise of hobnails on the bricks in the bar, and Mrs. Hall had very reluctantly to leave the rest of his soliloquy.
H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
The underlined word best means:
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
he vocabulary of a particular language, field, social class, person, etc
conversation no longer needed or useful
frank; outspoken
He soliloquized the while, for it is an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The underlined versions of the word are what parts of speech?
Verb, Noun
Noun, verb
Adverb, noun
Adjective, verb
Then he continued less vehemently: ’The first thing for you to understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms.
George Orwell -- 1984
The underlined word best means
marked by extreme intensity — especially emotion such as anger
passionate and ardent in love
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree
frank; outspoken; open and sincere
His mother shook her head vehemently, but this only enraged them.
Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Adverb
Verb
Noun
Adjective
The cry had been loud on account of its vehemence, but it had pealed out from somewhere far off on the shadowy plain.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
What type of sentence is this example?
Compound
Complex
Parallel
Simple
