WorksheetsSophomore WOW 9
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 14mins
’The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’ he said.
George Orwell -- 1984
What is the definition of the underlined word?
done or reached decisively and with authority.
making something definite, distinct, or clear
the formal statement of the meaning or significance of a word, phrase
change or conversion to another form, appearance, etc.; transformation:
And he proceeded to inform us that his departure from England was now definitively fixed for the ensuing year.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Verb
Adverb
Noun
Adjective
Which sentence using the word "obtuse" is a compound sentence?
They were obtuse; their moral was good.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Now, when he was on fire with his Cause, Arthur’s justice seemed bourgeois and obtusebeside him.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
Bella, for a fairly intuitive person, you can be so obtuse!
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
He imagines how obtuse and disconnected Cedric must feel.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
What had made her so blind, so obtuse?
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
What is a SYNONYM for the underlined word?
Ignorant
large
Uncertain
Triangular
Again there was that deliberate obtuseness in me.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
He was too tired to think about all the ramifications of the story, and the sort of thoughts they led him into were not familiar to him, unrealistic things, things better suited for officials of the court to discuss than for him.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial
The definition of the underlined word is:
complications that result from an initial action — typically unintended consequences
an uneasy feeling of doubt, worry, or fear, especially about one's own conduct; a misgiving.
not readily relinquishing a position, principle, or course of action; determined; persisting in existence; not easily dispelled.
Foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner
In the ramifications of party doctrine she had not the faintest interest.
George Orwell -- 1984
The underlined word is what part of speech?
Noun
Adverb
Verb
Adjective
I might have made the most intelligent and penetrating remarks about the ramifications and the causes of my sufferings, my sickness of soul, my general bedevilment of neurosis.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
This sentence is an exampled of what rhetorical structure?
Simple
Parallel
None of these
Complex
What are you going to do then?’ asked Pippin, undaunted by the wizard’s bristling brows.
Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring
The definition of the underlined word is:
not intimidated or discouraged by difficulty, danger, or disappointment
annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
not readily relinquishing a position, principle, or course of action; determined; persisting in existence; not easily dispelled.
obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
She is undaunted, and our weapons crash together in a starburst of sparks.
Sabaa Tahir An Ember in the Ashes
The underlined word is found in what type of sentence?
Compound
Complex
Parallel
Simple
She aimed over her shoulder with undaunted courage and Robbie was a blunt-nosed spaceship zooming through the void at maximum acceleration.
Isaac Asimov I, Robot
The underlined word is what part of speech?
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
They saved the bulk of their contempt and zealotry for the young, especially the poor women.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
What part of speech is the underlined word?
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
But the company of this sweet, if peculiar, guest pleased her the way a zealot pleases his teacher.
Toni Morrison -- Beloved
The underlined word means:
a person who is fanatical & uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals
a rebel or revolutionary.
a person who thinks only of oneself
a person who has an unusual, peculiar, or odd personality, set of beliefs
Which sentence containing the word zealot has a parallel sentence structure.
Newman eyed his interlocutress and satisfied himself that she was not a gossip, but a zealot; she looked anxious, appealing, discreet.
Henry James -- The American
Then China will be ruled by a Nationalist zealot whose ideological roots are in Taiwan.’
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Cult specialists see desultory defacement from inexperienced fringe sects-zealots who commit random acts of terrorism-but the Illuminati have always been more deliberate.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
She adored Austen Heller; he was, she stated, an oracle to all those pretending just the tiniest bit to the title of progressive intellectual, she thought—"don’t you?"—and she followed Heller like a zealot, "yes, literally, like a zealot."
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
