WorksheetsSECRET BATTLE: Ender's Game 13-15 Vocabulary
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
waste away or decay
a)
atrophy
b)
glint
c)
commission
d)
acquiescence
e)
commiserated
2.
A mistake resulting from carelessness
a)
blunder
b)
drone
c)
silhouetted
d)
camaraderie
e)
biosphere
3.
Someone with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of their own kind
a)
chauvinist
b)
silhouetted
c)
charade
d)
collation
e)
subordinate
4.
intended or likely to placate or pacify
a)
conciliatory
b)
glint
c)
vengeance
d)
cynical
e)
extenuating
5.
A transitional point or time
a)
cusp
b)
circumvent
c)
evade
d)
deference
e)
rescind
6.
expressing contempt or ridicule
a)
derisive
b)
fodder
c)
beckoned
d)
discreet
e)
noncompliant
7.
Ability or power to decide responsibly
a)
discretion
b)
extenuating
c)
lithe
d)
exploit
e)
commission
8.
very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
a)
fastidious
b)
cinched
c)
deftly
d)
flux
e)
despicable
9.
peaceful in character or intent
a)
pacific
b)
flamboyantly
c)
renounced
d)
gullible
e)
malleable
10.
serving or intended to preempt or forestall something, especially to prevent attack by disabling the enemy
a)
preemptive
b)
sadist
c)
persecution
d)
incognito
e)
requisition
11.
relating to or denoting a person at or approaching the age of puberty.
a)
pubescent
b)
dessicate
c)
competent
d)
inextricably
e)
glint
12.
entertain or amuse (someone) with talk
a)
regale
b)
malicious
c)
sanctions
d)
interpose
e)
assimilation
13.
to attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft
a)
strafe
b)
grisly
c)
conception
d)
invective
e)
jackal
14.
forming a very small remnant of something that was once much larger or more noticeable
a)
vestigial
b)
ostentatious
c)
glower
d)
loathing
e)
lithe
15.
a person who gives up material comforts and leads a life of self-discipline
a)
ascetic
b)
caromed
c)
conscript
d)
marshal
e)
cronies
16.
navigation of a spacecraft
a)
astrogation
b)
adroitly
c)
vivisect
d)
megalomania
e)
commission
17.
the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure
a)
attrition
b)
arcane
c)
legitimate
d)
nonchalance
e)
silhouetted
18.
an underground passageway
a)
catacomb
b)
archaic
c)
peripheral
d)
nuances
e)
charade
19.
To treat like a baby
a)
coddle
b)
banter
c)
ambiguous
d)
philotic
e)
vengeance
20.
unrelated to the subject
a)
extraneous
b)
breached
c)
allotted
d)
pseudonyms
e)
evade
21.
make a deceptive or distracting movement, especially during a fight
a)
feint
b)
decisive
c)
droned
d)
puerile
e)
beckoned
22.
inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable
a)
formidable
b)
divisive
c)
forestall
d)
rhetoric
e)
lithe
23.
To encircle (the body) with or as a belt
a)
girdle
b)
elite
c)
cinched
d)
scathing
e)
deftly
24.
impossible to understand or interpret.
a)
inscrutable
b)
improvise
c)
defiant
d)
thresher
e)
renounced
25.
an intervening space, especially a very small one
a)
interstices
b)
insubstantial
c)
scrupulously
d)
adroitly
e)
persecution
26.
say or recite with little rise and fall of the pitch of the voice
a)
intone
b)
lax
c)
circumvent
d)
arcane
e)
competent
27.
the state of being completely forgotten
a)
oblivion
b)
surly
c)
inexhaustible
d)
archaic
e)
sanctions
28.
the outer limits or edge of an area or object
a)
periphery
b)
adroitly
c)
deference
d)
apex
e)
biosphere
29.
(of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered
a)
petulant
b)
arcane
c)
discreet
d)
centrifugal
e)
cinched
30.
tie or hold the arms or legs of (someone)
a)
pinion
b)
archaic
c)
exploit
d)
contention
e)
competent
31.
a fixed grimace or grin
a)
rictus
b)
banter
c)
flux
d)
dessicated
e)
defiant
32.
able to perceive or feel things
a)
sentient
b)
breached
c)
gullible
d)
malicious
e)
deftly
33.
collection of valuable items found
a)
trove
b)
decisive
c)
incognito
d)
obscurity
e)
despicable
34.
free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty
a)
acquit
b)
divisive
c)
inextricably
d)
perverted
e)
disorientation
35.
excessive flattery or admiration
a)
adulation
b)
elite
c)
interpose
d)
polyglot
e)
inexhaustible
36.
frankness or sincerity of expression; openness
a)
candor
b)
improvise
c)
invective
d)
raucous
e)
lithe
37.
idiot
a)
cretin
b)
insubstantial
c)
caromed
d)
roiling
e)
purge
38.
an urgent need or demand
a)
exigency
b)
lax
c)
contingent
d)
conscript
e)
scrupulously
39.
going about in search of things to steal or people to attack
a)
marauding
b)
surly
c)
forestall
d)
evade
e)
subordinate
40.
Someone who provokes others
a)
provocateur
b)
marshal
c)
hamper
d)
extenuating
e)
contempt
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