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A Long Way Gone - Chap 1-5 Vocab Quiz 1

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An exile who flees for safety

a)

Refugee

b)

Ponder

c)

Parched

d)

Interrogate

2.

Annoy continually or chronically

a)

Involuntarily

b)

Plague

c)

Ravaged

d)

Barren

3.

Capability to perform or produce

a)

Clench

b)

Waft

c)

Capacity

d)

Militant

4.

Something that serves to suggest

a)

Intervention

b)

Clench

c)

Scabbard

d)

Indication

5.

Increase in extent

a)

Intensify

b)

Anticipated

c)

Adage

d)

Subsequent

6.

Filled with a great quantity

a)

Deploy

b)

Laden

c)

Resonate

d)

Strive

7.

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing

a)

Evoke

b)

Deploy

c)

Evade

d)

Adjoin

8.

Completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing

a)

Plague

b)

Intensify

c)

Console

d)

Chaotic

9.

Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

a)

Adjacent

b)

Console

c)

Anxious

d)

Plague

10.

A cry of sorrow and grief

a)

Maim

b)

Wail

c)

Commence

d)

Torment

11.

Give moral or emotional strength to

a)

Suppressed

b)

Engulf

c)

Console

d)

Capsize

12.

Someone injured or killed in an accident

a)

Disarray

b)

Veranda

c)

Subtle

d)

Casualty

13.

A sudden and decisive change of government by force

a)

Coup

b)

Torment

c)

Aback

d)

Subside

14.

Place troops or weapons in battle formation

a)

Deploy

b)

Vicinity

c)

Engulf

d)

Eventually

15.

Speak haltingly

a)

Subtle

b)

Embellish

c)

Conjure

d)

Stammer

16.

Call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

a)

Shudder

b)

Evoke

c)

Console

d)

Ravage

17.

Produce a deep, clear sound

a)

Skeptical

b)

Commence

c)

Resonate

d)

Oblivious

18.

Exert much effort or energy

a)

Strive

b)

Fatigue

c)

Contort

d)

Scuttle

19.

A condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact

a)

Aback

b)

Hobble

c)

Adage

d)

Coax

20.

Inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole

a)

Refugee

b)

Intensify

c)

Anxious

d)

Embedded

21.

An involuntary vibration, as if from illness or fear

a)

Main

b)

Vigilance

c)

Hearsay

d)

Shudder

22.

Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

a)

Engulf

b)

Adjoin

c)

Commence

d)

Skeptical

23.

Expected hopefully

a)

Brace

b)

Rummage

c)

Anticipated

d)

Torment

24.

Very unhappy

a)

Rummage

b)

Torment

c)

Vicinity

d)

Miserable

25.

Following in time or order

a)

Subsequent

b)

Indelible

c)

Consistent

d)

Extravagant

26.

Unproductive of success

a)

Prefect

b)

Vain

c)

Subside

d)

Disregard

27.

Having a common boundary or edge

a)

Disarray

b)

Veranda

c)

Embedded

d)

Adjacent

28.

Care provided to improve a situation

a)

Plague

b)

Intervention

c)

Indication

d)

Anxious

29.

Deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain

a)

Engulf

b)

Rummage

c)

Torment

d)

Scarred

30.

Engaged in war

a)

Coax

b)

Embellish

c)

Conjure

d)

Militant

31.

Providing no shelter or sustenance

a)

Barren

b)

Refrain

c)

Disconsolate

d)

Aback

32.

A hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

a)

Refugee

b)

Pestle

c)

Indication

d)

Wail

33.

Squeeze together tightly

a)

Ponder

b)

Intensify

c)

Clench

d)

Laden

34.

Be driven or carried along, as by the air

a)

Scabbard

b)

Parched

c)

Brace

d)

Waft

35.

Dried out by heat or excessive exposure to sunlight

a)

Embedded

b)

Parched

c)

Plague

d)

Scarred

36.

Make a pillaging or destructive raid on, as in wartime

a)

Adjacent

b)

Scar

c)

Militant

d)

Ravage

37.

A sheath for a sword or dagger or bayonet

a)

Indication

b)

Scabbard

c)

Intensify

d)

Wail

38.

Pose a series of questions to

a)

Chaotic

b)

Interrogate

c)

Anxious

d)

Intervention

39.

Against your will

a)

Involuntarily

b)

Indication

c)

Coup

d)

Strive

40.

Reflect deeply on a subject

a)

Console

b)

Resonate

c)

Subsequent

d)

Ponder