WorksheetsWOW 10- The Awakening (22)
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
He observed his hostess attentively from under his shaggy brows, and noted a subtle change which had transformed her from the listless woman he had known into a being who, for the moment, seemed palpitant with the forces of life.
Chopin -- The Awakening
The best definition of this word is
teeming with
a slight and rapid trembling
drained and slightly waning
listless, but ready to engage
He tucked an errant curl behind her ear, enjoying the brush of her soft skin.
The word errant can best be described as
a cork screw curl
soft and winding
straying from the proper course
wild; cannot be tamed
The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
-- Moby Dick
A synonym for the underlined word is
magnificent
megalomaniac
mundane
maleficent
The walk and the pleasure he derives from tripping Leon seem to sober him up.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz.
The best definition of the underline words based on this sentence is
provoke or annoy (someone) so as to stimulate some action or reaction.
base a concept on a logical extension or modification of (another concept)
obtain something from (a specified source)
attractive and impressive
The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.
An antonym for the underline word would be
swollen and distended congested
tediously pompous or bombastic
factual and non-emotional
cut throat and candid
I pr'ythee, speak to me as to thy thinkings
As thou dost ruminate; and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
Shakespeare -- Othello
The best way to ruminate your enemy's demise is
A long bath with lots of bubbles
to think deeply
quick and decisive
with friends and an alibi
Usually he submitted with silent dignity to all which he had to go through, but, at times, he was goaded into comment.
Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
When you are goad- it means to have been
given a treat as an incentive
pushed by physical force
respectably and honorably invited
to have been provoked or annoyed
And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory. Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
All of the following are synonyms except
Unconvinced
Dubitable
Perplexing
unequivocal
It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
The underline word is best described as
bodily; physical
confined space
dead and lifeless
effervescence
She was more softened, more gentle; and, though equally assiduous in every duty, it was with a chastened and quiet air, as one who communed with her own heart not in vain.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Based on the contextual clues, chastened best means:
gentle and comforting
stoic and firm
restraining and reproof
authoritative and demur
Check all of the sentences that are an example of a complex sentence.
Wherever yo go, you can find beauty.
As she was bright and ambituous, she would get into the school of her choice.
I have to save this coupon in case I come back to the store tomorrow.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelian Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. - One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
