WorksheetsShores ENG3 Week 3 Vocab Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Choose the word that means "to reduce the anger of someone or mitigate the severity of what they feel."
Pugnacious
Gingerly
Facade
Mollify
Choose the word that means "dead or putrid flesh; anything rotten or vile."
Carrion
Pugnacious
Redolent
Derogatory
Choose the word that means "bellicose, belligerent, hostile."
Cantankerous
Dejected
Imperious
Pugnacious
Choose the word that means "grumpy, cranky, peevish, or disagreeable."
Dejected
Bellicose
Pugnacious
Cantankerous
Choose the word that means to do something "gently, carefully, or slowly."
Imperious
Facade
Gingerly
Carrion
Choose the word that means "having a noticeable smell."
Carrion
Dejected
Redolent
Gingerly
Choose the word that means "haughtily domineering or overbearing."
Facade
Gingerly
Mollify
Imperious
Choose the word that means "depressed in spirits or melancholy."
Gingerly
Pugnacious
Cantankerous
Dejected
Choose the word that means "disparaging or meant to harm, humiliate, or belittle, especially in regard to remarks."
Dejected
Derogatory
Carrion
Redolent
Choose the word that means "a superficial appearance or illusion of something."
Facade
Redolent
Pugnacious
Mollify
Sometimes the people who are most depressed put on a __________ of happiness and cheer in public.
Facade
Redolent
Dejected
Imperious
The boy's heart raced when he finally got the note back from the girl he liked. Unfortunately, she had checked the "No" box. Disappointed and ____________, he put his head down on his desk and tried not to cry.
Redolent
Carrion
Pugnacious
Dejected
The young man's scholarship to Harvard was withdrawn after he publicly made some ____________ comments about people of a different race than himself.
dejected
derogatory
gingerly
redolent
The ____________ man had a long history of lashing out in sudden bursts of anger, and he'd been arrested for acts of violence on several occasions.
cantankerous
dejected
imperious
pugnacious
The grumpy, ______________ old man shouted out the window at the children who stepped off the sidewalk and onto his perfectly mowed lawn.
dejected
bellicose
cantankerous
pugnacious
The weight lifter was worried his ankle might be sprained, so he moved ___________ through his day to day routine so as not to risk injuring it.
imperious
dejected
cantankerous
gingerly
The basement of the dingy restaurant was ____________ with the odor of moldy cheese.
cantankerous
facade
pugnacious
redolent
Select the word that does not belong.
Recklessly
Carefully
Gingerly
Softly
Select the word that does not belong.
Cheerful
Sanguine
Dejected
Optimistic
Choose the word that does not belong.
Imperious
Domineering
Haughty
Mellow
