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Shores ENG3 Week 3 Vocab Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the word that means "to reduce the anger of someone or mitigate the severity of what they feel."

a)

Pugnacious

b)

Gingerly

c)

Facade

d)

Mollify

2.

Choose the word that means "dead or putrid flesh; anything rotten or vile."

a)

Carrion

b)

Pugnacious

c)

Redolent

d)

Derogatory

3.

Choose the word that means "bellicose, belligerent, hostile."

a)

Cantankerous

b)

Dejected

c)

Imperious

d)

Pugnacious

4.

Choose the word that means "grumpy, cranky, peevish, or disagreeable."

a)

Dejected

b)

Bellicose

c)

Pugnacious

d)

Cantankerous

5.

Choose the word that means to do something "gently, carefully, or slowly."

a)

Imperious

b)

Facade

c)

Gingerly

d)

Carrion

6.

Choose the word that means "having a noticeable smell."

a)

Carrion

b)

Dejected

c)

Redolent

d)

Gingerly

7.

Choose the word that means "haughtily domineering or overbearing."

a)

Facade

b)

Gingerly

c)

Mollify

d)

Imperious

8.

Choose the word that means "depressed in spirits or melancholy."

a)

Gingerly

b)

Pugnacious

c)

Cantankerous

d)

Dejected

9.

Choose the word that means "disparaging or meant to harm, humiliate, or belittle, especially in regard to remarks."

a)

Dejected

b)

Derogatory

c)

Carrion

d)

Redolent

10.

Choose the word that means "a superficial appearance or illusion of something."

a)

Facade

b)

Redolent

c)

Pugnacious

d)

Mollify

11.

Sometimes the people who are most depressed put on a __________ of happiness and cheer in public.

a)

Facade

b)

Redolent

c)

Dejected

d)

Imperious

12.

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.

a)

Redolent

b)

Carrion

c)

Pugnacious

d)

Dejected

13.

The young man's scholarship to Harvard was withdrawn after he publicly made some ____________ comments about people of a different race than himself.

a)

dejected

b)

derogatory

c)

gingerly

d)

redolent

14.

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.

a)

cantankerous

b)

dejected

c)

imperious

d)

pugnacious

15.

The grumpy, ______________ old man shouted out the window at the children who stepped off the sidewalk and onto his perfectly mowed lawn.

a)

dejected

b)

bellicose

c)

cantankerous

d)

pugnacious

16.

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.

a)

imperious

b)

dejected

c)

cantankerous

d)

gingerly

17.

The basement of the dingy restaurant was ____________ with the odor of moldy cheese.

a)

cantankerous

b)

facade

c)

pugnacious

d)

redolent

18.

Select the word that does not belong.

a)

Recklessly

b)

Carefully

c)

Gingerly

d)

Softly

19.

Select the word that does not belong.

a)

Cheerful

b)

Sanguine

c)

Dejected

d)

Optimistic

20.

Choose the word that does not belong.

a)

Imperious

b)

Domineering

c)

Haughty

d)

Mellow