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LOTF Vocab Quiz Ch. 9 & 10

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of “derision”?

a)

Scatter among or between other things.

b)

Contemptuous ridicule or mockery.

c)

A formal way of saying one is overweight.

d)

Walk in a slow or relaxed manner.

e)

A shadowy form that appears large or threatening.

2.

The parents have decided to ___________their son’s trust fund payments so that he will get money every 30 days.

a)

inhibit

b)

notorious

c)

intersperse

d)

wizen

3.

fat

a)

corpulent

b)

slender

c)

gregarious

d)

jaunty

4.
Match the vocabulary word to the definition: 
 to appear in a large, strange, or frightening form often in a sudden way : to appear in an impressively large or great form
a)
looming
b)
extricate 
c)
tentative
d)
vignette
5.

to pull out by force

a)

bisect

b)

contract

c)

resolution

d)

extract

6.

scrumptious; delicious

a)

divining

b)

succulent

c)

octaves

d)

lopiing

7.
Julian ____________ quietly through the park on a bright and lovely day.
a)
posed
b)
sauntered
c)
impress
d)
deeds
8.
something that will fall, pour, or rush in stages, like a waterfall over steep rock
a)
cascade
b)
rivulet
c)
hank
d)
precipice
9.

a property of certain fluorescent chemicals or minerals that continue to glow after an ultraviolet source has been removed

a)

phosphorescence

b)

fluorescence

c)

cleavage

d)

color

10.

Being marked with lines or wrinkles caused by frowning, anxiety, or concentration.

a)

Propitiatingly

b)

Myopia

c)

Cessation

d)

Furrowing

11.

Made dirty; polluted.

a)

Corpulent

b)

Befouled

c)

Sough

d)

Epaulette

12.

Loathing

a)

a very strong feeling of hatred

b)

Satisfied

c)

disgusted

d)

Attachment

13.

After the guilty verdict was rendered, the defendant ___________ left the courtroom in handcuffs.

a)

drastically

b)

somberly

c)

desolate

d)

ordeal

14.

very hot and dry

a)

Torrid

b)

Elucidate

c)

Elate

d)

Vapid

15.

steep cliffs

a)

signet

b)

miserly

c)

crags

d)

brougham

16.

Sentences that ask a question are called?

a)

questions

b)

interrogative

c)

declarative

d)

imperative

17.

study of religion and God

a)

theology

b)

scholasticism

c)

anti-Semitism

18.

What word means "to dig up or gather?"

a)

squandered

b)

dredged

c)

skittish

d)

frantically

19.
a shape stretched out longer than it’s usual shape or size
a)
oblong
b)
deliberately
c)
whittle
d)
lame
20.

Which word would best make sense in the blank?

The plant's ____________ wrapped around the gate, making it difficult to open the latch.

a)

stirrings

b)

standards

c)

objectives

d)

tendrils