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Antaeus Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does flourish mean?

a)

low wall around the edge of a roof or platform

b)

with a lot of color

c)

unemotional

d)

to grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way

2.

What does thrust mean?

a)

to push with force

b)

to be judged with attitude more than by words

c)

to grow very quickly

d)

to understand by only a small group of people

3.

What does it mean to be petered out?

a)

to wobble

b)

to tend to a crop for the last time before harvesting

c)

to quit or stop

d)

to have very little color

4.

What is the meaning of parapet?

a)

where vegetables are grown for market

b)

low wall around the edge of a roof or platform

c)

to be a sharecropper and share crops with a land owner

d)

a movable model of person or animal that is controlled by strings or by a hand inside it

5.

If a person is stolid, they are...

a)

very happy and excited

b)

very sad and discouraged looking

c)

quite unemotional

d)

really hyper and emotional

6.

If something is inert, it is...

a)

shaky and wobbly

b)

flying through the air

c)

sinking as in water

d)

very still and unmoving

7.

If someone is stocky, they are...

a)

tall and slender

b)

big guy like Shaq O'Neal

c)

solid, thick, and short

d)

about medium build

8.

A person who is resolute is...

a)

meek and quiet-spoken

b)

shy and timid

c)

loud and obnoxious

d)

determined, set in purpose or opinion

9.

What is a person's domain?

a)

land that a person would like to own but cannot own

b)

land that a person rents but does not own

c)

land that person owns, rightful territory

d)

land that is being sold to someone else

10.

Something that is vacant is...

a)

empty, unoccupied

b)

full and occupied

c)

half-empty

d)

a long but fun trip

11.

What does mean laborious mean...

a)

a room or building equipped for scientific experiment

b)

a type of dog, as in retriever

c)

the way that a lazy person works

d)

produced by very hard work

12.

What is a ventilator?

a)

a special elevator from Venice, Italy

b)

mechanism for getting rid of old air and brings in fresh air

c)

someone who vents or complains after an argument

d)

similar to commentator, but more emotional

13.

If a person is teetering, they are...

a)

sick and throwing up

b)

wobbling while walking

c)

ballet dancing

d)

giggling and laughing loudly

14.

When something is desecrated, it is ...

a)

lit up with a lot of Christmas lights

b)

when desks on placed in crates so they are not damaged

c)

it is treated with great disrespect and often destroyed

d)

treated with a great deal of respect and care