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Hot Zone Vocabulary quiz

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 20mins

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Class
Date
1.

Choose the BEST definition for the word husbandry.

a)

a believer in or adherent of naturalism

b)

the science, skill, or art of farming

c)

an organization whose members are arranged in ranks

d)

a form of defense against an accusation that proves he was somewhere else at the time of the crime

2.

Choose the BEST definition for the word Hierarchy.

a)

a believer in or adherent of naturalism

b)

the science or skill or art of farming

c)

an organization or group whose members are arranged in ranks

d)

a form of defense against an accusation that proves he was somewhere else at the time of the crime

3.

Choose the BEST definition for the word alibi.

a)

a believer in or adherent of naturalism

b)

the science or skill or art of farming

c)

an organization or group whose members are arranged in ranks

d)

a form of defense against an accusation that proves he was somewhere else at the time of the crime

4.

Choose the BEST definition for the word lesion.

a)

a wound, especially an area of skin that is broken or infected

b)

a state of physical slowness and mental dullness resulting from tiredness, disease, or drugs

c)

an action taken to protect against possible harm or troubles

d)

the exploration or examination of an area to gather information

5.

Choose the BEST definition for the word lethargy.

a)

a wound, especially in an area of skin that is broken or infected

b)

a state of physical slowness and mental dullness resulting from tiredness, disease, or drugs

c)

an action taken to protect against possible harm or trouble

d)

the exploration or examination of an area to gather information

6.

Choose the BEST definition for the word contorted.

a)

showing or possessing shimmering, milky colors

b)

Carefully thought out and done intentionally

c)

greatly or violently twisted out of shape

d)

unstoppable

7.

Choose the BEST definition for the word tantalize.

a)

to tease or torment somebody by letting him see, but not have, something desirable

b)

to shed something, or to be shed

c)

to kill all living microorganisms in something to make it incapable of causing infection

d)

to distribute someting over a wide area

8.

Choose the BEST definition for the word sterilized.

a)

to tease someone by showing him something and letting him see it but not have it.

b)

to make somebody irrational or extraordinarily angry

c)

to shed something or to be shed

d)

to kill all living microorganisms in or on something to make it incapable of causing infection

9.

Choose the BEST definition for the word precautions.

a)

carnivorous animals that hunts and eats other animals to survive

b)

actions taken to protect against possible harm if something goes wrong

c)

forms of defense against an accusation that proves the person was not at the scene of the crime at that time

d)

explorations or examinations of an area to gather information

10.

Choose the BEST definition for the word statutory.

a)

at a later time, and often as a consequence

b)

carefully thought out and done intentionally

c)

covered by a written law passed by a legislative body and subject to penalty

d)

greatly or violently twisted out of shape

11.

Choose the BEST definition for the word deliberate.

a)

to distribute something over a large area

b)

at a later time, and often as a consequence

c)

covered by a statute and subject to a penalty

d)

carefully thought out and done intentionally

12.

Choose the BEST definition for the word reconnaissance.

a)

to shed something or to be shed

b)

an exploration or examination of an area to gather information

c)

to move across, over or through a place

d)

to become or cause something to become wider

13.

Choose the BEST definition for the word sloughing.

a)

to shed something or be shed

b)

to travel or move across, over, or through some area or place

c)

to kill an incurably sick person or animal to relieve suffering

d)

to send out energy such as heat or light, in the form of rays or waves

14.

Choose the BEST definition for the word subsequently.

a)

carefully thought out and done intentionally

b)

greatly and violently twisted out of shape

c)

at a later time, and often as a consequence

d)

extremely unhappy and discouraged

15.

Choose the BEST definition for the word traverse.

a)

to travel or move across, over, or through an area or place

b)

the exploration or examination of an area to gather information

c)

with charming, old-fashioned qualities

d)

impossible to pacify or reduce in strength or force

16.

Choose the BEST definition for the word opalescent.

a)

to shed something or be shed

b)

showing or possessing shimmering, milky colors

c)

to kill living microorganisms on or in something ot make it incapable of causing infection

d)

with a charming, old-fashioned quality

17.

Choose the BEST definition for the word concierge.

a)

someone who is employed at a hotel to help the guests

b)

an out break or disease that spreads more rapidly than normal

c)

not a threat to life or long-term health

d)

an action taken to protect against a long-term threat

18.

Choose the BEST definition for the word deranged.

a)

to make someone extraordinarily angry or irrational

b)

to distribute something over a wide area

c)

to shed something or be shed

d)

to become or cause something to become wider

19.

Choose the BEST definition for the word benign.

a)

a quantity that has both direction and magnitude

b)

unstoppable

c)

not a threat to life or long-term health

d)

impossible to reduce in strength or force

20.

Choose the BEST definition for the word inexorably.

a)

impossible to pacify

b)

greatly or violently twisted out of shape

c)

carefully thought out and/or done intentionally

d)

unstoppable

21.

Choose the BEST definition for the word mutate.

a)

to change

b)

to make a person or animal do something by offering a thing he or she desires

c)

to move quickly and with suppleness

d)

to look at somebody in surprise and wonder

22.

Choose the BEST definition for the word parasite.

a)

a bitter verbal or written attack on somebody or something

b)

a member of an order of mammals with large brains and complex hands

c)

a plant or animal that lives on or in another , being of no advantage to the other.

d)

relating to, or typically cause by, a virus

23.

Choose the BEST definition for the word agile.

a)

an object or design with three lobes or connected parts

b)

able to move quickly and with suppleness, skill, and control

c)

to send out energy or light in rays

d)

a plant with a cluster of three leaves

24.

Choose the BEST definition for the word pathologist.

a)

a person who studies the disease origin and spread

b)

a believer or adherent of naturalism

c)

a person who studies the causes of diseases and how they affect people

d)

a hollow wooden horse that hid soldiers that came out at night and surprised those who took it in as a gift from the enemy

e)

Someone who is employed at a hotel and helps the guests

25.

Choose the BEST definition for the word epidemiologist.

a)

a scientist who studies the disease origin and spread

b)

a believer or adherent of naturalism

c)

a scientist who studies the causes of diseases and how they affect people

d)

a hollow wooden horse that hid soldiers that came out at night and surprised those who took it in as a gift from the enemy

e)

Someone who is employed at a hotel and helps the guests

26.

Choose the BEST definition for the word vaccine.

a)

a naturally produced substance that kills or inactivates bacteria, but has no effect against viruses

b)

a preparation containing a weakened or dead microbe of the kind that causes the disease, administered to activate the immune system against that agent

c)

an illness causing yellow skin

d)

a fixed annual sum, paid at regular intervals, for a professional job

27.

Choose the BEST definition for the word antibiotic.

a)

a naturally produced substance that kills or inactivates bacteria, but has no effect against viruses

b)

a preparation containing a weakened or dead microbe of the kind that causes the disease, administered to activate the immune system against that agent

c)

an illness causing yellow skin

d)

a fixed annual sum, paid at regular intervals, for a professional job

28.

Monet ________ the animal to sit on his shoulder by offering it a banana.

a)

dilated

b)

gaped

c)

enticed

d)

tantalized

e)

sterilized

29.

Soon after the outbreak in Germany, a team of investigators, under the ____ of the World Health Organization flew to Uganda to try to find out where the monkeys had come from.

a)

auspices

b)

archipelago

c)

ultraviolet

d)

primordial

e)

antiquity

30.

Then, they carried the hatbox with the dead monkey corpse to the ______ room away from the other monkeys.

a)

husbandry

b)

trefoil

c)

necropsy

d)

implacable

e)

alibi

31.

Once the virus enters the cell, it becomes a _____ with enemy cells pouring into the body.

a)

archipelago

b)

Trojan horse

c)

primate

d)

diatribe

e)

lesion

32.

He had an international reputation as a knowledgeable and skilled veterinarian who specialized in primate _______.

a)

husbandry

b)

antiquity

c)

Trefoil

d)

diatribe

e)

statutory

33.

The monkeys froze into _____ shapes, with their chest cavities spread wide and their intestines hanging out.

a)

quiant

b)

despondent

c)

invasive

d)

lethargy

e)

contorted

34.

A scientist should take proper _____ not to do any necropsies on animals until we've completed the test to know what we might be dealing with here.

a)

promiscuous

b)

precautions

c)

opalescent

d)

epidemic

e)

vector

35.

They tried to reach Kinshasa by radio, to tell Karl Johnson and the others that the ___ had already peaked.

a)

antiquity

b)

epidemic

c)

vector

d)

traverse

e)

salaried

36.

He has a reputation for being a top-notch ____, going out into the field and researching the first location of an outbreak and tracking its spread.

a)

pathologist

b)

Trojan horse

c)

primate

d)

epidemiologist

e)

parasite

37.

The virus, unknown to its host, is able to shift its shape and _____, able to become a new thing.

a)

radiate

b)

mutate

c)

tantalize

d)

deliberate

e)

invasive